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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.

Alan Alda

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
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
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
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Back Believer Day Go Longer One Realize
Kids are natural scientists.
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Kid Natural Scientist
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Business Call Out Product School Self
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Business Frown Major Out School Sell
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Assumption Awhile Come Every Light One Scrub Window World
But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
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
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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