Alan Alda Quotes

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleCuriosityRestFamousLips

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

Jill Clayburgh

CharacterExperienceThoughtsDoing

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

Anant Agarwal

EducationChangeLearningOpportunity

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

John Lasseter

PeopleMeYouCareerLivingNever

The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.

John Sharp

FoodWillStarMakeStampObsolete

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

Steven Wright

SpeedDarkOK

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

Mike Gordon

SongDoingCountryPlayKnowWay

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

Jon Watts

AgePeopleSayingStoryThinkYou

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

Douglas Rushkoff

I AmHappyPeopleInternetChampions

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

Ara Parseghian

WinningTraditionRenewNotre Dame

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

Antony Johnston

FaceProblemNonsenseAlmostPiracy

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

FortuneSomeBoatsBringsSteered

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

Phil Klay

HomeIntegrityCourageGreatPeople

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