Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDAIf I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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