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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Assumption Awhile Come Every Light One Scrub Window World
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
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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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Before Beginning Being Done Good Mystify
Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Late Many Night People Similar Way West Willing Wing Work
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Level Normal Poison Simply Testosterone Until
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
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
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 wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
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
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
ALAN ALDA

Almost Frustration Know Long Painful Pleasurable Sweet Teasingly

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