Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
Born: Sep 25, 1956
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It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop. Jamie Hyneman
Power Collect More Through Times Efficient Than Millions Dam
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up. Jamie Hyneman
Art Creative Our Rather Almost Like Gotten Art Form Up Than Blowing Quite Just Crap Form Use Explosives
After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change. Jamie Hyneman
Time Change Master Caribbean Dive Charter Years After Decided Boat Working Captain Number
We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like. Jamie Hyneman
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I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon. Jamie Hyneman
Attached Horse Like Freight Wagon Race
We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not. Jamie Hyneman
Build Believe Destroy Rather Than Prefer Really Things
You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do. Jamie Hyneman
You Creativity Amazing Thinking Carefully Everyday Outside Stuff Know Look Box Deal Little Applying
I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate. Jamie Hyneman
Work Mind Out See Because Work Out Separate Body Regularly
I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle. Jamie Hyneman
Water Circle Well Around Up Ended Behind While Skiing Team Stanford Swung Rowing
There are things that you would think were not possible, and yet they are. Jamie Hyneman
You Think Possible Would Were Things
I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects. Jamie Hyneman
Library Creative Problem Internet Fall Before Would Solving Had Involved Also Making Came Up Effects Problem-Solving Dynamic Special Special Effects Routine Things Career
For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs. Jamie Hyneman
Made Naked Lunch Crew General Like Bugs Years Lots Shop Movies Worked Four
In my case, the only thing to note is if I show up at home at an unusual time, it's cause for raising my wife's blood pressure because it only happens if... usually that involves stitches. Jamie Hyneman
Time Home Cause Wife Pressure Case Only Involves Unusual Because Blood Blood Pressure Up The Only Thing Happens Note Show Thing Raising
In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me. Jamie Hyneman
Me You Mustache Pretty About Case Put Like Well Looks Just Want Anything Figure
The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there. Jamie Hyneman
World Our Out Put Like Most Proud Doing Curiosity Playing Core
Well, one of the myths early on that I think is one of the funnier things we've done is airline toilet seats. That one was about a large woman that sat down on a seat in an airline and flushed the toilet and got stuck on it. Jamie Hyneman
Woman Down Think Airline About Stuck Myths Well Got Done Toilet Large Sat Seat Seats Things Early Funnier
Children are just little scientists. Jamie Hyneman
Scientists Just Children Little
We've done a zombie episode - only one - and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren't zombies out there for real, but there's a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We've tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that. Jamie Hyneman
Way Pressing Out Would About Only Through Push Stuff Like Look Understand How Real Test Tested Lot Done Against Interesting Them Bodies Episode Things Zombie Zombies Gate
If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining. Jamie Hyneman
Entertaining Knew Doing Were
If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think. Jamie Hyneman
You Waiting People Think Define Something Answers Question Than Get Sitting Just Different Little Then Really Right
Occasionally, you know, a myth is specific with a certain model of car, you know, like a Corvette or whatever. And so we end up spending some cash on those. Jamie Hyneman
You Car Myth Whatever Spending Those Some Cash Like Know Occasionally End Up Model Certain Specific
Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity. Jamie Hyneman
Science Our Neither Involve Sort Scientists Lot Curiosity Just Anything Happens Us Engineers Fun Satisfying Thing Adam
Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical. Jamie Hyneman
Calm Methodical Impulsive Energetic Adam
We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both happily married. To women. Jamie Hyneman
Gay Women First Big Francisco Married Something Guy Both Mail Got Lot Moustache Being Fan Fan Mail San San Francisco Happily Show Started
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret. Jamie Hyneman
Hair Out Hat Wearing Habit Like Got Falling Caps Baseball
We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole. Jamie Hyneman
Strength Other Rule Embrace Seeing Pretty Something Guy Fact Pole Always Learnt Opposite Friends In Fact Irritate Much Use Each
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