After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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