My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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 wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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