My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
ADAM SAVAGEIt’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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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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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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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 think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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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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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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