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.
ALAN ALDAFor a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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