No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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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.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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 be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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