What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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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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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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