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.
ALAN ALDAI was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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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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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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