Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
ALAN ALDAIt’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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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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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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’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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