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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

Alan Alda

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
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
I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Girl Give Lease Money More
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Assumption Begin Challenge Own
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So
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.
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Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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Along Come Communication Interest Position Scientific Whatever Wonderful
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
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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Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
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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Level Normal Poison Simply Testosterone Until
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.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself

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