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!
ALAN ALDAJean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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