Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAIn 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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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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What 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.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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