life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
ALAN ALDATestosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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 other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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