It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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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’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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