What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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Kids are natural scientists.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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 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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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