The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
ADAM SAVAGEI go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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We are always works in progress.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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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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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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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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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.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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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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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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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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