During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDAI’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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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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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like 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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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