I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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