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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.

Alan Alda

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.
ALAN ALDA

Bad Few People Person Took Wonderful World
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
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 ALDA

Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
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.
ALAN ALDA

Answer Campaign Church Day Every Government Question Religion
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA

Crack Everything Loneliness Up
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 ALDA

Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
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.
ALAN ALDA

Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
ALAN ALDA

Belief Hold Human Own People Press Question Worry
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.
ALAN ALDA

Do Docus Everybody Moment Relax Toe
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!
ALAN ALDA

Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
ALAN ALDA

Character Find Put Way Word
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Girl Give Lease Money More
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.
ALAN ALDA

Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
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.
ALAN ALDA

Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
ALAN ALDA

Celebrity Enough Grandparent Lucky Parent Suppose
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself

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