Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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