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.
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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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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