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.
ALAN ALDAWhen I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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That 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.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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