For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
ALAN ALDAReally top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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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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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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