Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
ALAN ALDAMusicals 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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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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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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