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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

Alan Alda

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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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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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

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