Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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