For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDABeing mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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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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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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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