298 Quotes by Alan Alda

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    If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.

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    When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.

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    Even when we think of empathy as a tool for good, it might not be a good idea to oversell its strengths, and we should remember that there will always be people who will use it against others for their own benefit.

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    There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

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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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    Real conversation can’t happen if listening is just my waiting for you to finish talking.

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    The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 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 discover will be yourself.

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    A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that. But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

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    How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?

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