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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.

Alan Alda

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
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
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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Brain Everything Figure Hand Influence Less Money Out Over Prejudice Soul
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Brought Longer Religious
What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Body Complete Famous Fascinate Lip People Rest Understand
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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Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say
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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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
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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Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Heaven Just Puny Realize Star Swirl Tiny Wonder Yourself
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
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try

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