That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: 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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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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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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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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that 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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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