When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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