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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

About Think Actually Ought
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Works Mind Failures Experts
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Appear Been Before Boy
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What goes up must come down.
Come Down Goes Must
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

Boring Exciting Getting Going
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

About Anyway Beatles Four
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It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

Labor Keeps Strong man
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Before Best Different Discard
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Did Effort Him Honorable
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I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

About Antithesis Because Job
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What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

About Actor Because Body
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Came Family I Came Important
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That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

About Always Compromise Go
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Fear is what makes comedy funny.

Comedy Fear Funny Makes
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The capacity to make and own decisions made is the signpost of maturity. In both personal and public matters. What guides decisions are varied…

The capacity Decision Signpost Personal
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People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you.

Different Kinds Marriages People
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

Any Bleed Character Creepy
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A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

About Actor Being Lot
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Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

Adulthood Axis Different Earth
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My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.
Paint Job Know See
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I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Freedom Want Whatever
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Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

Again Almost Always Am
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What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.

Call Crazy Differentiate Experience
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Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.

Bad Enough Get Guarantee
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I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
Complicated Get ILove Just
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Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse
Common Uncommon Thinker Refuse
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Interesting Settling Good Enough Enough
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Capability Humans Want Human
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I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

People Done Beef Fingers
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Art Does Makes Rather
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

He Paint Painter Seen
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Asked Become Destiny Fulfill
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

Kind Brands Brand New Comics
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I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Fighting Guy Trying Care
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Believe Writing Style I Believe
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Mother Father Men Shopping
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As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

Aim Good Grow Help
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

Both Good Off Playing
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Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

Get How Lies Result
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Away Being Believe Best
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Could Discussion Fascist Follow
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We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Again Back Cannot Caused
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What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

Before Doing Done Enjoy
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

Alive Because Eat Hardly
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What I love best in life is new starts.
Best I Love Life Love
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Exclusivity Hate I Think Like
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Cannot English French Many
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