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 ALDAAfter a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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