I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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