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That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

Hurting Like Me Minutes
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I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

Businesses Create Day Disposable
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

Advantage Competitive Competitive Advantage Country
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.

Call Company Every Identify
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In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

Am Culture Government I Am
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Am Convinced Creature Cries
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

Come Country Economics Global
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Afraid Been Daughters Eve
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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.

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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Action Any Begin Believe
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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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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

Accept Constitution Exercise Just
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Actions Correspond Few Many
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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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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Else Oh Point Say
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

About Again Also Appreciating
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I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

Am Beyond Bring Engineering
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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Being Boards Crew Discovery
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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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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Days Dearest Far Life
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Absolutely Community Dear Embraced
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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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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

About Appreciate Been Compare
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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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Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Comment Like Microphone More
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Building Deadline Decades Learned
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Feel Good Proud Too
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

About Best BestWork Day
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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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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.

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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Worst Kind Prejudice Angry
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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
Bad BadMood Father Lot
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Spent Pursuing Classical
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Everything That Is Done
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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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