We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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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.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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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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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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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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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.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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