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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
-
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
-
I watch a lot of television. I always have.
-
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
-
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
-
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
-
Too much agreement kills the chat.
-
Causes brings over 140 million people together to form the world's largest giving community. The belief that everyone has something to give is at the core of what we do; people just need a little inspiration, and to know that whoever they are, there is something meaningful they can do.
-
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
-
My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
-
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
-
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.
