I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
ALAN ALDAJean 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.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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