They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
ALAN ALDAAnd I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Kids are natural scientists.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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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.
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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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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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 can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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