If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDAIf you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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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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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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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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