You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDASo 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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