Alan Alda Quotes

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SciencePerspectiveScience Fiction

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Joel Hodgson

ScienceMysteryBecomeLikeTheater

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

Matt Kemp

HeroPeopleYouLookSometimesMuch

My dad was not one of these stereotypical military people - buzz-cut, rah-rah-rah.

Trevor Paglen

PeopleMilitaryStereotypicalDad

Look, I am very competitive.

Tony Blair

I AmLookCompetitiveVeryAm

My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.

Tony Parker

FocusSimpleBasketballComfortKeep

Sometimes I'll get ideas in the middle of the night. Sometimes at 3 in the morning I'll get up, and I have a notebook by my bed and have to write it down. I'll dream an idea. Sometimes I see an image online, and I think, 'OK, let's make that a three-layer cake!'

Rosanna Pansino

MorningCakeIdeasNightThinkDown

We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity.

Michael Nutter

InvestmentWashingtonTaxesPay

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

GreatMoneyPeopleIdeasBackNow

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Luke Bryan

BestBetterYouFindTryWrite

A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.

Jason Pierre-Paul

GoodMeSuper BowlRunPlayoffs

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Joseph Brodsky

ThreeTwiceBeenImprisonedHad

Self-defence helps with your confidence, and if you ever find yourself in that type of situation, you are more physically capable.

Cobie Smulders

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