Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on 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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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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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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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