Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDA
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Alan Alda on doubt
Alan Alda142 quotes“Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.”
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
Alan AldaAlan Alda A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
Alan AldaAlan Alda When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
Alan AldaAlan Alda And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
Alan AldaAlan Alda People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
Alan AldaAlan Alda One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
Alan AldaAlan Alda
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One life to live, live it to the fullest. If you have doubts or your gut feeling says something, listen. Don’t waste time, time will waist u.
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Rick RiordanRick Riordan I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan’s autism.
Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthy Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
DogenDogen The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that
Bantu HolomisaBantu Holomisa No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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