My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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