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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

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
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Blow Catch Down Help Look Moment Rattlesnake Sat Several Volcano
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place
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.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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According Every Inmate Nearly Prison Remarkable Told
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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Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Good Seen Try Want Write Writer
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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Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Age Fair Golden Other Rule Tarnish Until
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
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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Belief Hold Human Own People Press Question Worry
Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Brate Creative Enough
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take

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