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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.

Alan Alda

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
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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Almost Frustration Know Long Painful Pleasurable Sweet Teasingly
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Anything Camera Debate Hour Love Most Excite One Stage Time Wrong
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
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
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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Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
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
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
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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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time

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