Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDAMy mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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’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.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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