Alan Alda quotes

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. (Alan Alda)
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. View quote
Alan Alda
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. View quote
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I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. View quote
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. View quote
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. View quote
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Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. View quote
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. View quote
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. (Alan Alda)
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. 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. View quote
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money. View quote
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. View quote
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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. View quote
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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. View quote
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Kids are natural scientists. View quote
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. View quote
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I'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. View quote
Alan Alda
... 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. View quote
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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. (Alan Alda)
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. View quote
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I hated high school. It was a prison. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me. View quote
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