I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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