A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
ALAN ALDAIt’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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