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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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