All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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