When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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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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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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