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.
ALAN ALDAReal listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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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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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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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