I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
ALAN ALDAOne day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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 really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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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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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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