Kids are natural scientists.
ALAN ALDAWhenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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