No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
ALAN ALDAKids are natural scientists.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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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