"I had never really wanted to be famous.……" — Alan Alda
"I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery."
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101 Quotes by Alan Alda
Alan Alda has 101 quotes on this site.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with…
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty,…
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better…
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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…
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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