Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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