Adam Savage Quotes

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

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• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Body

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Eyes
  • Leadership
  • Obstacles

• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Catholic

• The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Value

• My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Years
  • Husband
  • Cancer

• All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Great
  • Crying

• My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Country
  • Age
  • Promise

• Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Long
  • American

• I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

  

  James Corden
  • School
  • Kids
  • Shoes

• Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Retirement

• I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

  

  Jared Gilman
  • Movie

• The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

  

  Adam Savage