Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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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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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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