I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
ALAN ALDANever Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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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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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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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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