Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
ALAN ALDAIt’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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