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.'
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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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.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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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.
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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.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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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.
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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.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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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.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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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.
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Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.
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All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
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I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.
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My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.
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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.
