Sam Kean Quotes
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.Sam Kean
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Vanilla Ice -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan
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All of us grow.
Foster Friess -
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
Patricia Cornwell -
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
Salman Rushdie -
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
Gabrielle Union -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman -
It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
Katee Sackhoff -
In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
Caprice Bourret -
I love being in a courtroom.
Kamala Harris
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
Sam Rockwell -
I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O -
'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.
Elizabeth Banks -
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
Sam Kean