Adam Savage Quotes
Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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There is no one true church.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
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Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
