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.
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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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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