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.
ALAN ALDAI’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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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 don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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