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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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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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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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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Music The Art Prophets
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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Things Beautiful Best Cannot
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I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.
Dream Every Man Nightmare
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When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Anybody Anymore Anything Believing
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I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Enough First Fortunate Had
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Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.

Always Great Kind Me
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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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It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

Attire Brought Casual Clothes
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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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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Planet Force Among Feared
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Read Hope Strange
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For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

About Ahead Always Business
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Belongs Death Famine Life
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I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!
Always Been Best Could
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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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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Will Fear
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Alive Time Painful Also
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Call Cold Every Every Man
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Age Another Away Day
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Affection City Enjoy Feel
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Benefits Devotion Enemies Enemy
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Access Direct Life Taboo
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Demand Freedom Only People
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Doctor Door Joy Nose
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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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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival Passion Battle Child
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My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

Bigger Brother Me Sisters
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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Scars Suffer Peace Prays
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Live Country Dream Long
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Voice Crowd Roar Brave
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze drifting' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

Birds Flying Sky Breeze
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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Die Live Lose War
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Kept Sane Thing Myself
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