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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Alan Alda
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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.
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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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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 wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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