I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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How 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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I 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.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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They’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.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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