Alan Alda
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Alan Alda (born 28 January 1936) is an award-winning American actor, perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.
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- The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
- as interviewed on NPR's Here & Now, "A Conversation with Alan Alda", September 13, 2007.
- My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
- in his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400064090
- ... life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
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- Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.
- The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
- 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 in.
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- Alda's motivational graduation speech at Connecticut College
