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 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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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.
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We have to work together. We have to support each other. When we hear about a wonderful woman, we have to tell other women about her. Help her, prop her up. Give her what she needs. That's a big lesson.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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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.
