Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDABe as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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When 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.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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