I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDA
ALAN ALDA
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
Alan AldaAlan Alda So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
Alan AldaAlan Alda That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
Alan AldaAlan Alda My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan AldaAlan Alda In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
Alan AldaAlan Alda During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
Alan AldaAlan Alda When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
Alan AldaAlan Alda If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan AldaAlan Alda There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
Alan AldaAlan Alda What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Eckhart TolleEckhart Tolle Her image flickered all night in my tear-filled eyes.
Rahil KhanRahil Khan The mirror image has always been my role model.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.
Kendrick LamarKendrick Lamar God had other plans when he created us in no one’s image.
Tom MetcafeTom Metcafe Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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