There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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