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.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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