I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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