Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAA taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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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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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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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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