When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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