Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDAlife 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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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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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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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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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Several 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.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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