Adam Savage Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I'm a composer, man.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.
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To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.
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I have a very introverted real personality.
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Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
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The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves being able to kind of use them as artistic tools. And so if I was to give one piece of advice, it would be to find beauty in your core first before you go out into the world and find it in other ways.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
