It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDAAnd I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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 people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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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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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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