How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
ALAN ALDAKids are natural scientists.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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