When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAI let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without 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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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