Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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