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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.

Alan Alda

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
And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Beg Demand Everyone Expression Politician Press Religious
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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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
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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Anything Back Bring Dead Deeper Dog Image Something Start Think
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
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
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Advice Avoid Change Dog Remember Stuff Surf
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
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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Accomplish Back Fin Life Look Satisfaction Sene Thing Through
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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Back Communicate Familiar Home Right Signal Something Start Track
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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Act Impulse Nobody People Punch Something
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Being Better Gentle Good Humble Man Something Sort Strong Woman

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