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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

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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Bus Do Get Hard Know Quite Risk Work
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
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Business Frown Major Out School Sell
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Club Glee High Musical School Thrown Time Tune
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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Artist Capture Color Feeling Fragile Gesture Net Say Thing Word
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Fly Human Magic Physics
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
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
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Always Combine Experiment Figure Found Happen House Interest Thing Together
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
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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Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus

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