The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
ALAN ALDALife is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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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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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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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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