Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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