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Before the Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show, the show coordinator asked Prince if he'd be alright performing in the downpour.. to which Prince responded "Can you make it rain harder?"

Years after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington attended a party in Vienna, in which French guests turned their backs to him in anger. When the hostess apologised, the Duke replied: "It's alright Madam, I've seen their backs before"

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1. The word "ok" as we know it today, as a synonym for "alright", is only about 175 years old. It was originally written as a joke that went viral in 1839 by a Boston editorial writer satirizing people's bad grammar and use of abbreviations, and was an abbreviation for "oll korrect".

2. Eye of the Tiger" was originally going to be called "Survival" until the writers decided it was alright to rhyme "rival" with "tiger"

3. An Austrialian called Don Ritchie stopped 160 suicide attempts over a 45 year period, he would approach people and ask if they are alright before asking them in for a cup of tea and a chat and talk them out of it. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his actions.

4. The sound of water helps us sleep as our brain interprets it as “non-threatening” noise signal that says “Don’t worry, you are alright”

5. Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton called up Moe Howard to see if it was alright to use the name "The Stooges" for their band. Howard replied "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not The Three Stooges!" and hung up

6. Shirley Temple was considered to have helped boost morale during the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple we will be alright."

7. She wrote a popular book titled, Is My Baby Alright? A guide to birth defects, in 1973.

8. A CEO of a publicly listed company was once ordered by an accountant who didn't recognize him to remove an exercise machine from a room. He replied, "Alright," and politely took it away, never mentioning the incident again. At the time, John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world.

9. After Don McLean revealed that "the jester" referred to in "American Pie" was Bob Dylan, Dylan said, "A jester? Sure, the jester writes songs like 'Masters of War', 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall', 'It's Alright, Ma' – some jester. I have to think he's talking about somebody else. Ask him."

10. When Hitler's chief ideologist (Alfred Rosenberg) gave him his most important book to vet before publication, he didn't respond for a year. When Rosenberg asked him how he found it, he just said "I feel sure that it's alright", not admitting that he had actually never read it.

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Matthew McConaughey's "Alright, Alright, Alright" came from listening to the Doors song Five to One while making the first scene of Dazed and Confused.

If a famous personnel want to be more famous, just do something unacceptable for the public and then spend a million to redeem himself,everything will be alright by then. - source

There are 15 "ALRIGHTS" in "Hey Ya" by Outkast - source

The english word astamagootis, meaning being restless or worried, comes from the Dutch phrase "Als het maar goed is" ("If only everything is alright").

Pharrell sings the hook of Kendrick Lamar's "Alright" - source

Christopher Rees - Alright Squires [alternative country/folk rock] (2013)

It's alright to fail a few times Just don't ever give up thats all

That, according to live performances of the Genesis song "Say It's Alright Joe", the song's narrator is named Sidney, and is the second cousin of Albert, the character from the front cover of their 1980 album, *Duke*.

Sean Connery once said in an interview, "it's alright to slap a woman"

The lyrics to "The Kids Aren't Alright" by Offspring is said "Brandon OD'd and died." I had always thought it was "Brandon Odina died."

Clark Kent, Superman's alter ego, was likely modeled after science fiction writer, Walter Dennis. Dennis was asked by Joe Shuster if it would be alright to use his likeness for Kent.