What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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