Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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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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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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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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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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