More from Alan Alda
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Insanity is just a state of mind.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
Alan AldaAlan Alda What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
Alan AldaAlan Alda What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Alan AldaAlan Alda When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
Alan AldaAlan Alda Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan AldaAlan Alda You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
Alan AldaAlan Alda
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the ‘best family.’
Barbara MadsenBarbara Madsen No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
TecumsehTecumseh I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
George JonesGeorge Jones Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
Waylon JenningsWaylon Jennings Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing i held disappeared more with each passing day.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
Lord ByronLord Byron
