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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda

Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
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
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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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
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
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Girl Give Lease Money More
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
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
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Age Fair Golden Other Rule Tarnish Until
I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Belief More Much Personal Private Probably Public Something Strong
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Brought Longer Religious
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
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
A 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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Almost Frustration Know Long Painful Pleasurable Sweet Teasingly
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Brave Creative Discover Enough Wonderful Yourself
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Anything Back Bring Dead Deeper Dog Image Something Start Think
When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Celebrity Enough Grandparent Lucky Parent Suppose
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Being Better Gentle Good Humble Man Something Sort Strong Woman

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