Adam Savage Quotes
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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Damn everyone to Hell. And damn the bloody forest. And God, too, for that matter.He looked up fearfully from his chill handful of water, but his silent blasphemy went unpunished.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
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Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not-or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.
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People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.
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Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
