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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.

Alan Alda

I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Image Manipulate Try
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
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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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
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
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Fly Human Magic Physics
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
Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Anger Use Useful Work
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
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

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