Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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