Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDAThe one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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