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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you...

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Quote by Alan Alda about humor, sun

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, light, world

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy....

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only neccesary to be rich.

Quote by Alan Alda about happiness, wealth

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, being, existence, woman, world, good, good luck, man

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing...

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another

Quote by Alan Alda about humor, people

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by...

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi

Quote by Alan Alda about humor, originality

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Quote by Alan Alda about courage, doubt

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, people, use, bad luck, bad, world

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Quote by Andre Agassi about city, old, olderness

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Quote by Boy George about rightness, work, good, good luck, time, people

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Quote by Boy George about sex, haven, bad, things

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is...

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Quote by Boy George about good, good luck, man, people

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he...

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

Quote by Boy George about talking, actors

Because the Culture Club thing had become very hard work, ...

Because the Culture Club thing had become very hard work, and I'd forgotten that you could actually have a laugh in the studio.

Quote by Boy George about culture, work, things

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the...

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Quote by Boy George

Being the kind of person I am, though, I preferred it...

Being the kind of person I am, though, I preferred it when it was more scandalous.

Quote by Boy George about man, people, being

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, ...

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Quote by Boy George about drugs, culture, religion

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Quote by Boy George about dance

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

Quote by Boy George about man

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where...

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

Quote by Boy George about nation, garden, people

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