Alan Alda Quotes
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
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As a challenger, I need and want to fight some people because that would give me the opportunity to get to the title shot.
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
