Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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