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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.

Alan Alda

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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Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Late Many Night People Similar Way West Willing Wing Work
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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Almost Frustration Know Long Painful Pleasurable Sweet Teasingly
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
The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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Accomplish Back Fin Life Look Satisfaction Sene Thing Through
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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Beg Demand Everyone Expression Politician Press Religious
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Being Better Gentle Good Humble Man Something Sort Strong Woman
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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Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Fly Human Magic Physics
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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
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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Back Believer Day Go Longer One Realize
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
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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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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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness

Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.

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