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.
ALAN ALDAI was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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