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982 Television Quotes

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

America Business Job Parent
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Act Besides Certain Different
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Actually Depth Favorite Kind
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Art Baths Bubble Friends
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It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Grown Interact Learned Lives
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It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Definitely Draining Dream Friends
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Album Always Before Graduated
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I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

Always Fashion Risk Like
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I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Act Albums Entertainer Films
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Anything Beat Happens Hide
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

My Own Own Reality Reject
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Any Data Experiment Failed
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Failure is always an option.
Always Failure Option
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

About Am Feel Really
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Bigger is always better.

Always Better Bigger
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I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Fix Good Good Ideas How
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I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Doing Had Hell Just
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

Hurt Like Looked Say
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Evil Genius He Jamie
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Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.
Anything Dichotomy Everything Incredibly
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That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

Hurting Like Me Minutes
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Advice Away Keep Lips
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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Dignity Good Meet Never
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

Back Fridge Fuel Get
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Face Feel Glass How
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Couple Fourteen Glass Me
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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Else Oh Point Say
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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.

About Again Also Appreciating
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Dying Felt Finally Going
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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.

Being Boards Crew Discovery
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
About Being Geek Learning
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Curiosity Demonstrating Educators Engage
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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

About Attitude Creative Critical
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Absolutely Community Dear Embraced
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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.

Always Because Bit Laugh
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

About Forum Frequent Group
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Building Deadline Decades Learned
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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.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
How Lists Manage World
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Also Big Breaking Confront
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Also Arranging Came Course
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Able Being Delay Despise
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Batman Belt Everything Form
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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Bought Built Coolest Ever
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Am Debate Discussion Edward
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability Advancement Allow Architecture
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Because Bono Con Dressed
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