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.
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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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life 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.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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