The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
ALAN ALDAThat last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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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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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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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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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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