I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I 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.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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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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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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