I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
ALAN ALDAI let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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