Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDAI don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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[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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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’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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