Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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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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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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