War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDAYou 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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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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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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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.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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.
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