Sam Kean Quotes
Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
