I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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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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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’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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