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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.

Alan Alda

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Body Complete Famous Fascinate Lip People Rest Understand
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
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
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Age Fair Golden Other Rule Tarnish Until
Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Certain Murder Play Republican Think
When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Good Seen Try Want Write Writer
But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
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
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
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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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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