When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDAI’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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