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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Building Claim Former Happen
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Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Among Challenges Day-To-Day Experience
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.

Appropriate Avail Be Prepared Constitution
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

Back Fridge Fuel Get
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Face Feel Glass How
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Always Conflicting Directly Entertain
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

About Asked Attributes Been
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Couple Fourteen Glass Me
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Curiosity Demonstrating Educators Engage
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Day Dreamer Dreams Great
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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

About Attitude Creative Critical
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Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh
Friends Just Laugh Make
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I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

Because Doing Else Feel
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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Always Because Bit Laugh
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abstain Act Conveyed Enough
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

About Forum Frequent Group
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Curl Mere Scatter Smoke
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Comment Like Microphone More
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Appealed Box Burning Cap
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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Act Around Because Day
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

Changes Citizenship Concept Country
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

Am Congress Member Proud
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Slavery Abolished Thinking
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

Chain Citizens Democracy Interested
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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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A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Always Comedy Critics Got
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I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
Adam AdamSandler Comedies Continue
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Like man Rich Sailboat Music
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Studying Black Concert Pianists
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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 grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Cursing Felt Grew Lot
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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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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'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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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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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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All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

Like Me Men Want
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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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