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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;

Alan Alda

If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Abnormal Almost Hypothesis led Poison Suffer Testosterone
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
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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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Business Call Out Product School Self
This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Belief Hold Human Own People Press Question Worry
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 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
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
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 brave enough to live creatively.
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Brate Creative Enough
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
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
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
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

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