Sam Kean Quotes
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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All of us grow.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.
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You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year, And a sphere.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
