When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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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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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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