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.
ALAN ALDAI’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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 was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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