All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: 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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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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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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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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