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.
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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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’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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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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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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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’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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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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