The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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.
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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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