We’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 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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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’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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