And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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