If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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