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.
ALAN ALDASeveral thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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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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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.
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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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