Sam Kean Quotes
Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I don't know what love means.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.
