life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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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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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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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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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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