For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
ALAN ALDAAlmost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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