You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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 found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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