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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.

Alan Alda

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?
ALAN ALDA

Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDA

Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
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.
ALAN ALDA

Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDA

Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
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 ALDA

Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
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.
ALAN ALDA

Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
ALAN ALDA

Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDA

Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Bus Do Get Hard Know Quite Risk Work
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDA

Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
ALAN ALDA

Level Normal Poison Simply Testosterone Until
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Girl Give Lease Money More
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA

Crack Everything Loneliness Up
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDA

Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until

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