Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
ALAN ALDAWhen 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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