Sam Kean Quotes
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
