I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
ALAN ALDAThere’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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