It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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