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?
ALAN ALDAThey wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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