I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEI’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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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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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 am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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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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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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