Sam Kean Quotes
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.Sam Kean
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
Sam Smith -
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
Tamra Davis -
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp -
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt -
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Hank Johnson -
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Yannick Noah -
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Ralph Hodgson -
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
Vera Farmiga -
I've always been attracted to action stuff.
Danai Gurira -
I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
Karen Allen -
I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
Garrison Keillor -
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Nate Silver -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
Brigitte Bardot -
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
Macaulay Culkin -
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
Lee Grant -
It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges -
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
Sam Kean