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.’
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 guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Kids are natural scientists.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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