Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
ALAN ALDAMy relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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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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