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 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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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