It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAInsanity is just a state of mind.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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