There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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