What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAWhen people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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