When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDAPeople who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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!
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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