Adam Savage Quotes - Page 3

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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. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Stars, War

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• Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

  Adam Savage

  World, Lists, Manage

  "Adam Savage's first step of project planning: make a list". www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

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  Teacher, Laughing, Crowds

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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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  Fire, Car, Desert

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• Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. 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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  Prayer, Past, Listening

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• Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. 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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  New York, Children, Growing Up

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• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - 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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  Cutting, Museums, Feet

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• That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything.

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  Jobs, Rockets, Mythbusters

  "'MythBusters' ('Bulletproof Water')". Documentary, Reality-TV, (2003 - ).

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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. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Half, Facts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

  Adam Savage

  Hurt, Hurt Feelings, It Hurts

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• New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. 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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  Beautiful, New York, Giants

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• I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

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  Ideas, Needs, Might

  "Inside Adam Savage's toolbox". www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

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  Stupid, Really Stupid, Feels

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• In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward - well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop - and he said, "Well, that was kind of fun, wasn't it? I mean, I don't see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun."

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  Summer, Fun, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Fun, Urban Legends, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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. 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, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.

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  Believe, People, Phrases

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Nice, Blow, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

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  Fierce, Hell, Moments

  "MythBusters/ Buster Special". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• Bigger is always better.

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  Fierce, Bigger

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• The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

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  Reality, Order, Ideas

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• Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

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  Toys, Fireman

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• If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

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  Hurt, Long, Done

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• When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

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  Stars, War, Light

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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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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  Discovery, Ideas, Track

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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• I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

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  Believe, Moral, I Believe

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