Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
ADAM SAVAGEI’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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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.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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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.
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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.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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