I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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