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 ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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 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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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