You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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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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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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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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