The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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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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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.
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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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