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.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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