For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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