Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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 found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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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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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be 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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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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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