Sam Keen Quotes
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I want to have a long career.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
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Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
