My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
ADAM SAVAGEYou 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!’
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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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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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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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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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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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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’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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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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