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.
ALAN ALDAIt’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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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 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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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