The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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