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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

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Adam Savage
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 15
Actor
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Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Adam Whitney Savage
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World

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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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sticks and stones can only break bones but words can shatter the soul
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I believe that rules do not make us moral loving each other makes us moral.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
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