Adam Savage Quotes

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

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• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Variety

• I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Love
  • See
  • Shopping

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Brother

• The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Never
  • Odd
  • Island

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Summer
  • Short
  • Feet

• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Know
  • Understand
  • Impossible

• Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Government
  • Sound

• I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Country
  • American
  • Small

• One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.

  

  Miguel Sapochnik
  • Silence
  • Everything
  • Director

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

  

  Stuart Pearce
  • Succeed
  • Impression
  • Willing

• For nearly twenty of his years in London, he was known as a close supporter of the communists. People change their minds, but Mr. Menon's recent speeches do not suggest that he has changed his. I should guess that be is one of that considerable band of people in important positions in the free world who, though not technically party members, are in fact disciplined communists. Even if this is disputed, it will be agreed that there is something anomalous in a convinced partisan of the aggressor masquerading as a neutral mediator, and contriving so regularly to serve the aggressor's purposes. I hope people will not think I am suffering from a conspiracy mania; after all, Communism is a conspiracy.

  

  Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
  • People
  • Changed
  • London

• The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

  

  Adam Savage