I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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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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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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