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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

Alan Alda

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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Along Come Communication Interest Position Scientific Whatever Wonderful
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
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
Kids are natural scientists.
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Kid Natural Scientist
Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say
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
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
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
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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Body Complete Famous Fascinate Lip People Rest Understand
I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
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
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Business Frown Major Out School Sell
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
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

It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

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