Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDADon’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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