We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my PERSONALITY or the CIRCUMSTANCE, but it all KIND of LED to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
Read MoreMy first 'Tonight SHOW' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be COMING together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the AUDIENCE going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's LIKE an ATHLETE: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
Read MoreEveryone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of HIGH school horrors. I think I was just an AWKWARD kid who never felt COMFORTABLE in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by CIRCUMSTANCE and then by CHOICE.
Read MoreOur experience of MANY life CIRCUMSTANCES is a function of our PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE and not the circumstance itself.
Read MoreYou don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they CHOSE to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an EXPERIENCE and LEARNING. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.
Read MorePeople ALWAYS WANT to think that because you're not from a certain CIRCUMSTANCE, you can't relate. That's RIDICULOUS.
Read MoreIn Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, BASICALLY, all the trees had gone, that PEOPLE all around the park are struggling to survive. It BECAME very clear that there was no WAY to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.
Read MoreA lot of times we base everything just on our immediate CIRCUMSTANCE. We don't see a big PICTURE for our LIVES. We don't LOVE ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.
Read MoreA lot of times we base everything just on our immediate CIRCUMSTANCE. We don't see a big picture for our LIVES. We don't LOVE ourselves. We don't have a WAY of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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