There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
ADAM SAVAGEThat’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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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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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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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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We are always works in progress.
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So 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.
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Failure is always an option.
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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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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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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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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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