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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.

Alan Alda

The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
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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Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself
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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Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
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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Behind Better Create Do Leave Place Think Want
When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Good Seen Try Want Write Writer
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Another General Kill Laugh One People
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Create Existence Life Meaningful Something Thought Unless Make
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Famous Happy Necessary Rich
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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Bad Few People Person Took Wonderful World
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Image Manipulate Try
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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Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So
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

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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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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