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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Achievement Confidence Done Faith
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As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Bathroom Crying Future Go
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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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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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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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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 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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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The Bible Cradle Wherein
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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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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 believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Believe I
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Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Line Longest May Mountain
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I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

Flair Flying Gun Jet
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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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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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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mental Bonds Homes Strike
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Did Does Explain Less
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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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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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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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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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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Kid Parents School Stare
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
Kid Read Reading Stand
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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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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'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Sorry World's Classic Pianist
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Epidemic Fashion Induced Nothing
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Cannot Dance Family Get
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Also Dangerous Sincere Stupid
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Conclusion Economists End Laid
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Before Behind Climb Fears
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Avoid Being Enough Happy
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Abide Achieved Beauty Glory
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Idea
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Generally I Avoid Temptation
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

He's The Kind Man
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

Didn't Discover Curves Only
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Look your best - who said love is blind?

Look Your Best Who
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Anything He History Learn
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Cultivate Your Curves They
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Forces Threat Nation Great
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Afraid Die Fit Live
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

College Go Ideas Place
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Literature
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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