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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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New York City
New York
Adam Whitney Savage
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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There is no dignity in television.
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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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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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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Isn't television glamourous?
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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Failure is always an option.
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If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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sticks and stones can only break bones but words can shatter the soul
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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