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Alan Alda

"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."

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"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."

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"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."
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"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money."
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