Alan Arkin Quotes

I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don't get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.

Alan Arkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1934

Topics

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We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jillian Michaels

WorkHappinessMistakePeopleYou

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

John McGahern

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

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I always have my books for company.

Sriti Jha

CompanyAlwaysBooks

For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?

Soledad O'Brien

EducationMoneyPoliticsYouThrough

They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.

Steven Van Zandt

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Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

Steve Rushin

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The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

Rita Moreno

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I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.

Josh Malerman

LoveIdeasYouHousePlaceKnow

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

Jon Ossoff

PositiveBetterI CanRunClear

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

Johnny Weissmuller

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I'm not someone who puts their money in a fund that earns 2 to 5 percent a year. I'm a man who tries to change things, move something with my money, to create jobs and, of course, at the same time earn more money with it.

Dietmar Hopp

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