Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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