I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
ALAN ALDAI would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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