I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDABegin challenging your own assumptions.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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