How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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