I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAHere’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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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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