Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
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I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
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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.
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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.
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The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
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You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. 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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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
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Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
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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.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
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The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.