Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
ADAM SAVAGESo my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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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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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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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 find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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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’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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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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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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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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