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.
ALAN ALDADon’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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