It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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And 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.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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