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.
ALAN ALDAIt’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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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.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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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 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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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