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.
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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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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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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