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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

Alan Alda

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Late Many Night People Similar Way West Willing Wing Work
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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Remember Smart Wise

Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

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