The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
ALAN ALDAI’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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