Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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!
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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