Sam Kean Quotes
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.
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I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
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Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.
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I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
