I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
ALAN ALDAFor humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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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 a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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