All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDANothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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