Alan Alda Quotes
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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… 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.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
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When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
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Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.