Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDAWar is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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[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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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