We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDAA taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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[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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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