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.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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 as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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