I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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