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I 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.

Alan Alda

Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
ALAN ALDA

Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
ALAN ALDA

Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
ALAN ALDA

Loss Money Plenty Soul
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
ALAN ALDA

Act Impulse Nobody People Punch Something
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Begin Challenge Own
This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
ALAN ALDA

Belief Hold Human Own People Press Question Worry
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
ALAN ALDA

Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
ALAN ALDA

Brought Longer Religious
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
ALAN ALDA

Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDA

Famous Happy Necessary Rich
Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
ALAN ALDA

Awful Coincidence Hand Incredible Knife Lock Other People Several Somebody Thousand Unjustify
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness

I 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.

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I 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.

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