It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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