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.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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