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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You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.
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The libel laws are very weak in this country. If they were strong, it would be very helpful. You wouldn't have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.
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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.
