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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.

Alan Alda

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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Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take
Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time
I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Good Seen Try Want Write Writer
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Remember Smart Wise
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Each Kill Laugh Other People Together
I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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Back Communicate Familiar Home Right Signal Something Start Track
Kids are natural scientists.
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Kid Natural Scientist
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change

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