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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.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Behind Better Create Do Leave Place Think Want
I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
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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Beg Demand Everyone Expression Politician Press Religious
Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Do Docus Everybody Moment Relax Toe
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
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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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Ability Exercise Hard Key Now Same Talent Time Tune
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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Bad Few People Person Took Wonderful World
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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Body Complete Famous Fascinate Lip People Rest Understand
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Brought Longer Religious
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Business Frown Major Out School Sell
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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Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
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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Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
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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Assumption Awhile Come Every Light One Scrub Window World
But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Abnormal Almost Hypothesis led Poison Suffer Testosterone
Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
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.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Again Experience Heal Laugher Loss Lost Midst Person Something Tragedy
Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Brate Creative Enough

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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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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