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Alan Alda Quotes

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Science Food Breathe More Need Eat

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Jessica Walter

Hide Nobody Lying Point Birthdays

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

John C. Calhoun

Political Down Will Become Two Left

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

Andrew Lo

Best Ideas Survive Through Natural

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?

John Lurie

Think You Know Jazz Real Even

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Robert Morgan

Love You Down Way Sit Publish

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

Jeffrey Kluger

Moment Decision Mind Start Think

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Tony Kushner

Beauty Accomplishment Better Way Who

Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.

Doug Ducey

Child Parents Care Parent Know Top

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

Chevy Chase

Fame Human Human Condition Very

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

William Shatner

Listening Looking Environment Tongue

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

Peter Carey

Community Great New York Think New

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Tyson Fury

Walk I Am You Want Line Whatever