Be brave enough to live creatively.
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’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’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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