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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

Alan Alda

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDA

Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take
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.
ALAN ALDA

Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
ALAN ALDA

Being Change Listen Other Person
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDA

Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Awhile Come Every Light One Scrub Window World
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
ALAN ALDA

Each Kill Laugh Other People Together
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
ALAN ALDA

Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDA

Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDA

Great Know Life Without
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Begin Challenge Own
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA

Crack Everything Loneliness Up
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
ALAN ALDA

Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
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.
ALAN ALDA

Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDA

City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

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