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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.

Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Again Experience Heal Laugher Loss Lost Midst Person Something Tragedy
Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Late Many Night People Similar Way West Willing Wing Work
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
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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Belief Hold Human Own People Press Question Worry
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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Communication Depend Good Live Our Place
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 don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
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
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Business Call Out Product School Self
I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
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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Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something

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