My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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