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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Doing Done Interrupted Others
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Against Any Born Conspiracy
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When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

Did Get Gig Me
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My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

About Anyway Attention Buddies
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Because Book Cover Day
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Be Careful Careful Heart Set
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
Silly Silly Things Stupid Things
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Amount Any Bloody Intelligence
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

Bowl Goldfish Like Living
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

Buried Day Dead Gospel
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

Done Journey Learn Lot
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
Boring Ever Grow Up
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We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

About African Also Crazy
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You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

End Freedom Just Struggle
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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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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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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Dying Felt Finally Going
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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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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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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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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 go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.
About Being Go Kids
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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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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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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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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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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Learn Get up Love Served
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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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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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Anybody Bring Country Family
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Also Dangerous Sincere Stupid
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

If Asked For Cup
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Children Example Hold Lesson
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Appointment Corrupt Democracy Election
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

A Dame That Knows
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

Agriculture Became Because Etc
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Capacity Extraordinary Leaders Occasion
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.

Although Best Enough Healthcare
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I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

Always Am Growing Helping
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