Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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