Sam Kean Quotes
The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.
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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
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I just love dancing.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
