You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
ADAM SAVAGEThe best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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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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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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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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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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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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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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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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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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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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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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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 skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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