In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
ADAM SAVAGEThere’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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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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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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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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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.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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