I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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 dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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