When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAHere’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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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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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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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 in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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