It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDAI’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they 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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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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