As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDABut often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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