Alan Alda Quotes

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

FutureBackPolicyGoingCommunicate

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Jean Nidetch

EatingProblemSolutionEmotional

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

Steve Prefontaine

MeWorldRunBeatWantsAnybody

Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.

Tom Tancredo

BetrayalRunIncompetenceOwnHer

We didn't have everything we wanted when we were younger, but there was never a moment we didn't feel our parents weren't doing everything they could.

RJ Cyler

MomentParentsFeelDoingNeverOur

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

RuPaul

CultureDoingYouTreasonActDrag

When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

Jonas Armstrong

GodGreenThank GodThoughtPerfect

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

Derrick Jensen

CultureThinkPlanetDominantUs

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Doug Liman

I AmHollywoodIndependentDirector

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

WeddingEnoughToo MuchTroubleLock

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

Bram Stoker

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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

William McKinley

ManI AmStandingTariffPlatform

Potentially, I would be very interested in being a shock jock, though Ofcom might be tricky. Some of the American stuff is appalling, wild stuff, crazy conspiracy theories.

Nigel Farage

CrazyAmericanWildConspiracyStuff

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