I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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