I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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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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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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