Sam Kean Quotes
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
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I want to win football games.
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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
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Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
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Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
