I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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