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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Why should you have to atone for making big movies?
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I think in our lifetime there is a probability that one of these weapons is going to go off in New York or Washington or some big city like that. The CIA needs to be doing everything it possibly can to penetrate terrorist cells and outlaw states.
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I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.
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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
