The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
ALAN ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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 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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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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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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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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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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