Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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 used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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 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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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