During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with 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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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