I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAI was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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