Alan Alda Quotes

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• Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
• Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
• 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,…
• Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
• 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…
• If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
• It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and…
• I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
• I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

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