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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
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Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.
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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
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I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth.
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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.
