My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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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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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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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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 used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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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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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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