What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAHere’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDAI used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
ALAN ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
ALAN ALDAThis gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
ALAN ALDAIf I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDABegin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDATestosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
ALAN ALDAFor a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
ALAN ALDAI find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
ALAN ALDAI’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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