Sam Kean Quotes

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Football
  • Fitness

• As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Opportunities

• Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • High
  • Education

• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • End
  • Cutting
  • Build

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Media

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Game
  • Reality

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Military
  • Organization

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Night

• A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Born

• We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Fire

• The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Legend

• In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Mind
  • Together

• Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Just
  • Rather
  • Dan

• Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Never
  • Human