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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

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
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
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Brate Creative Enough
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

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