I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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