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.
ADAM SAVAGEI’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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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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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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I 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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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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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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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Failure is always an option.
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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There is no dignity in television.
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