What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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.
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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.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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 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.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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