There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
ALAN ALDAEventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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 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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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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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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