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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

So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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Answer Campaign Church Day Every Government Question Religion
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
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
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
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Another General Kill Laugh One People
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
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
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Anger Use Useful Work
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Anything Camera Debate Hour Love Most Excite One Stage Time Wrong
I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Always Combine Experiment Figure Found Happen House Interest Thing Together
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
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
They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing

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