And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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 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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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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