Sam Kean Quotes
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
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They come transfigured back,Secure from change in their high-hearted ways,Beautiful evermore, and with the raysOf morn on their white Shields of Expectation!
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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
