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?
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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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 really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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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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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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