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.
ALAN ALDAWhat 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?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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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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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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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.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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