All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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