I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
ALAN ALDAOur lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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.
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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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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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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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