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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.

Alan Alda

I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
ALAN ALDA

Agnostic Believe Fancy Like Notion Simple Word
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?
ALAN ALDA

Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDA

Create Existence Originally Own Territory Unexplored
I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
ALAN ALDA

Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDA

Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take
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.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
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.
ALAN ALDA

Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA

Crack Everything Loneliness Up
Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
ALAN ALDA

Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
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 ALDA

Club Glee High Musical School Thrown Time Tune
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
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!
ALAN ALDA

Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDA

Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
ALAN ALDA

Being Better Gentle Good Humble Man Something Sort Strong Woman
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDA

Before Beginning Being Done Good Mystify
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.
ALAN ALDA

Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation

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 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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