Sam Kean Quotes
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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I like a quiet life.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?
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As far as vocal preparation goes, it’s really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It’s really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.
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I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
