Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
ALAN ALDAWhen does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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