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 ALDAAll these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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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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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