Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDASome of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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