Alan Alda
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"Alan Alda" is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his starring roles as List of M*A*S*H characters#Hawkeye Pierce/Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H (TV series)/M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing, and his supporting role in the 2004 film The Aviator (2004 film)/The Aviator, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor/Academy Award. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Stony Brook University/State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science and the Future of Life Institute. He serves on the board of the World Science Festival and is a judge for Math-O-Vision.

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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.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

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 is yourself.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

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.

Jean Paul Sartre says in 'No Exit' that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

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.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.