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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Alan Arkin

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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Answer Condition Everything Human Read Reflection Television
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Ancient Future Hindu Huge Illusion Modern Now Oldest Past Philosophy Science Time Vedas
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Catch Connect Everybody Failure Huge Off Rub
All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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Actor Burritos Consider Folk Group Guitar Manage Myself Play Underwear
I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Busy Gotta Happy Keep Thing Three Two Unless Work
You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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Contribute Country Household Made Sole Soup Word
I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious
I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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Easily Identity Label More Product Put Sold Wrap
We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Dance Heart Join Just Let might Out Party Rest
It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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Bunch Enthusiastic Lean Lot Thing Widely Year
Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

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