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.
ALAN ALDAIf I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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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 have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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