I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
ADAM SAVAGEI 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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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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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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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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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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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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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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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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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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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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