It’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.
ALAN ALDAI guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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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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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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 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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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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