Sam Kean Quotes
The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
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My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.
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Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
