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 ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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[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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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