As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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 have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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It’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.
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