I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
ALAN ALDAFor 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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