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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Alan Alda

Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDA

Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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According Every Inmate Nearly Prison Remarkable Told
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDA

Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Girl Give Lease Money More
I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Anger Angry Flash Image People Person
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
ALAN ALDA

Certain Murder Play Republican Think
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.
ALAN ALDA

Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
ALAN ALDA

Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
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?
ALAN ALDA

Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDA

Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
ALAN ALDA

Act Impulse Nobody People Punch Something
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
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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Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
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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Along Come Communication Interest Position Scientific Whatever Wonderful
When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
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 ALDA

Create Existence Life Meaningful Something Thought Unless Make
I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
ALAN ALDA

Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
ALAN ALDA

Back Communicate Familiar Home Right Signal Something Start Track
Insanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDA

Instant Just Mind State
Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
ALAN ALDA

Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
ALAN ALDA

Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself

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