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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Purpose Science Useful World
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Motivation Willingness Stop
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Future Striving Flexible Plural
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Opportunities Occur Crowd
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Answer Cool CoolGuy Good
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Else Episodes Going Good
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness Difference Talent Expectations
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Successful Mad Talent Rapid growth
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Intelligent people Thinker Average Skilled
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I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Big BigFan Buster Fan
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative thinking Mystical Skill
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
School Place Thinking Taught
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Teaching Unemployed youngsters
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Humor Characteristic Human mind
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don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Audience Hear Know Listening
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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Marriage is meant to advance, increase and promote you. It is not a necessary evil as you may have heard and probably believed. Rather, it is designed to make life complete for you.

Marriage Advance Promote you Evil
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Parents, please know that children need to be molded skillfully and tenderly to become a battle axe in the hands of God.

Parents Children Need Skillfully
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For your home to be sustained, you must lay your foundation upon the Rock, in the person of Jesus Christ. By making Jesus Christ the central focus in your home and allowing Him to take His rightful place.

Home Sustained Foundation Rock
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Whatever your situation or circumstance right now, you must settle it in your heart that the future God has planned for you is a glorious one. I rejoice with you!

Situation Future God Plan
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A fundamental truth that you must understand about child training is that it is a commandment from God. It is not a piece advice, a suggestion or a thing you do at your convenience.

Truth Training Commandment God
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At times submission in marriage may appear as foolishness to the world, to the believer it is wisdom. By this wisdom, many women have won their husbands to the Lord and several have kept their homes from falling apart.

Submission Foolishness Believer Wisdom
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When a man understands the nature of his wife and works according to that understanding, problems are less likely to arise in their home.

Man Wife Understands Problems
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An important step to locating a marriage partner is to make yourself as good as the type of person you desire. Think and consider if you constitute a right person to be sought after.

Marriage Partner Type Person
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To be successful, you must first understand that you did not just happen; you were made. You are a high-tech product packaged to perform certain well-defined functions. Since no product determines its purpose, you cannot determine your purpose, you discover it

Successful Happen Happen Perform
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Longevity on earth and eternity with God are both tied to the honour given by children to their parents.

Longevity Eternity Honour Children
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Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Attached Need People Person
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?

Movie Punches Scared Stomach
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Able Also Been Come
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Big BigBudget Blue Budget
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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Cause Chapter Different Get
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Able Any Biggest Critic
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I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Assistant Game Like Scheduling
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I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Actor Any Case Choose
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Ever Fan FanMail Jim
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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

Able Any Collect Creatively
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. Neil Patrick Harris

Ate Burger Mostly Occasional
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I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

Feel Going IFeel IFeelLike
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The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Demographics Different Many Now
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

Crystal Dark Fan Geeky
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I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Able Fairy Get Gotten
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Another Beverly Books Demographic
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
Changing Constantly Defines Involved
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