You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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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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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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