I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDASeveral 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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