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.
ALAN ALDAI’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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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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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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