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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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere.
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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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.
