It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAIt’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAWe’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
ALAN ALDAWhenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
ALAN ALDAWhen I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
ALAN ALDAIf you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDAI still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAThey’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
ALAN ALDASeveral thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
ALAN ALDAIf I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
ALAN ALDALife is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDAlife 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.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAHow can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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