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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda

I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
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 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
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Celebrity Enough Grandparent Lucky Parent Suppose
I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
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
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
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
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
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
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Creative Know Look New Possible Previous 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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Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
Kids are natural scientists.
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Kid Natural Scientist
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Famous Happy Necessary Rich
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

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