I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDA
ALAN ALDA
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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 Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
Alan AldaAlan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
Alan AldaAlan Alda A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Alan AldaAlan Alda The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
Dallas WillardDallas Willard We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
John EldredgeJohn Eldredge Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
Byron KatieByron Katie Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
Byron KatieByron Katie The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image.
Adam FussAdam Fuss First impressions are always the most important.
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