Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDANever Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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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 brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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 never tried to manipulate my image.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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