Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDAThis gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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