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.
ALAN ALDAIt isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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