It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDAIt tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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