Sam Kean Quotes

Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
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  • Love

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
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  • Said
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• I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Rather

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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  • Dad
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• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
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  • Come

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
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• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Country
  • Education

• I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Country
  • New
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• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
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  • Kind

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
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• I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
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• Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

  

  Narendra Modi
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  • Retail

• I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Live
  • Country
  • City

• The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Real
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  • Enterprise

• I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

  

  Anatoli Boukreev
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• I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.

  

  Mona Sutphen
  • Share
  • Interaction
  • Disproportionate

• Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • American