Adam Savage Quotes
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.
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If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
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When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.
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In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
