I’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.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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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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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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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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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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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 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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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’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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