artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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 play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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