For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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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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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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