” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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