We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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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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