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.
ALAN ALDAThe 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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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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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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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