Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDANothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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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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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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