I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
ALAN ALDASomeone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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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 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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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