Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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 an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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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 still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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