There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
ALAN ALDAWhat I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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?
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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Jean 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.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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