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.
ALAN ALDAWhat then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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 used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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