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Alan Alda Quotes

born 1936 United States

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is widely known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H (1972-1983) and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing (2004-2006).

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Also known as: Alan Alida, Alda, Alan

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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

You don't put statistics on trial, you put individuals on trial.

… 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.

My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.

Don't you know how much this place stinks? Don't you know what it's like to stand every day in blood, in the blood of children? I hate this place...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Alda (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.