I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
ALAN ALDAI had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDAAlmost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDAI can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
ALAN ALDAIn 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.
ALAN ALDAI’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
ALAN ALDAHere’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDAAnd 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.
ALAN ALDAThere 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.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDAOriginality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDAReal listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDAThey wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
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