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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Big BigTime Childhood Coming
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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

Buddies Like Sitting Writing
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I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Cursing Felt Grew Lot
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I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

Always Ever House Ladies
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
How Lists Manage World
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Also Big Breaking Confront
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Also Arranging Came Course
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Able Being Delay Despise
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Batman Belt Everything Form
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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Bought Built Coolest Ever
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Am Debate Discussion Edward
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability Advancement Allow Architecture
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Because Bono Con Dressed
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
Best Developed Ever I Think
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Age Could Early Early Age
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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Actually Children Church Continue
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

Appreciate Clinging Day Discovering
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Difficult Done Earliest Figure
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adulthood Care Consequences Defining
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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
You Like Believe
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

Internet Technology
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Brain Reality Check
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Believe I
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My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

Big Embarrass Fuzzy Grandmother
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SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Brothers BrothersAndSisters Got Great
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In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Alive Around Day Feel
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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Actor Become Comedian Excited
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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Day Get Growing GrowingUp
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My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

Bigger Brother Me Sisters
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Girls are soft and pretty.
Girl Pretty Soft
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Am Because Best Dancer
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Beautiful Compare Crazy CrazyPeople
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Kid Parents School Stare
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My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Father Like Pants Same
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
Kid Read Reading Stand
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It's nice when little teams win.

Little Nice Teams Win
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Always Family Movie Wanted
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I can handle pain.

Handle ICan Pain
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

Bedtime Come Get Gets
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When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

Audience Did Happy Kids
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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Adam AdamSandler Good-Looking Name
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Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

Anyway End Figured Get
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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
Always Friends Had House
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Don't throw away a good man because he is always busy

Throw Good man Busy Away
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Everything is not solved by prayer. Don't be deceived.

Prayer Everything Deceived Solved
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If you are filthy and need a bath, pray from now till tomorrow, if you no baff, you go still dey smell.

Filthy Bath Pray Tomorrow
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