People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
ALAN ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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