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.
ALAN ALDAEverybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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