Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDANo 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Kids are natural scientists.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without 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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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 found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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