What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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