When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDAI used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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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.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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