The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDAI can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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.
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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 don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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I 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.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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