Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDAThere’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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 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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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