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.
ALAN ALDAThere are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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Your 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.
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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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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