Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDABeing mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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