The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
ALAN ALDAThe other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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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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