Sam Kean Quotes
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I love cycling.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
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Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.
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Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films and I want to see whether 3 Idiots will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country...Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
