Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
ALAN ALDAYou’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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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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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