I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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This 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?
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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