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 ALDAIf you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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 would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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