But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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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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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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