It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAMy mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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