Alan Arkin Quotes

My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won't be offended.

Alan Arkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

Joe Klein

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The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Stephen Wolfram

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When I became aware of how inhumane it is to test on animals, I made a commitment not to buy anything that was.

Torrey DeVitto

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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

Mary Crosby

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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

Clement Attlee

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My fans have been so sweet and supportive.

Colleen Ballinger

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Trust in yourself.

Claudia Black

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.

Sean Bean

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The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

Thomas Marshburn

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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

Norma McCorvey

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I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Richard C. Armitage

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