I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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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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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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