Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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