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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
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Film Director
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Manhattan borough
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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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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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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artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling a taste a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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.
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