life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
ALAN ALDAI’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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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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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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?
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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