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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Alan Alda

I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Ability Exercise Hard Key Now Same Talent Time Tune
But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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Brain Everything Figure Hand Influence Less Money Out Over Prejudice Soul
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Brave Creative Discover Enough Wonderful 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.
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Bad Few People Person Took Wonderful World
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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According Every Inmate Nearly Prison Remarkable Told
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Heaven Just Puny Realize Star Swirl Tiny Wonder Yourself
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Creative Know Look New Possible Previous Something
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Anger Angry Flash Image People Person
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Brought Longer Religious

I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

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