Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDAMy relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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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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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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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.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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