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- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.
- Embark
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
- Manipulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never tried to manipulate my image.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. 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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are natural scientists.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
- Collection
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- Nov 07, 2020
M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strong preference for being alive.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated high school. It was a prison.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The meaning of life is life.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to watch how scientists' minds work.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020