I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
ALAN ALDAIf 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?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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My 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.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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.
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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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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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