I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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 wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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