Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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