Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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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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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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