Adam Savage Quotes
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
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I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
