Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDAAnd 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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