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Sam Kean Quotes

Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

Sam Kean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Work Looking You Play Genes Disease

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Jim Davis

Comedy Contribution English

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not a comfortable life. It's not relaxed. I'm not relaxed as a person. I mean, I'm not unhappy. But... it's the opposite of being comfortable.

Angela Duckworth

Life Unhappy Wish Person Striving

We have tacos and burritos and things that sound Mexican. But to me, it's about great-tasting food in an atmosphere sympathetic to the food, prepared freshly and served to the customer in a way that's customizable.

Steve Ells

Food Me Customer Way Sound Mexican

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Siobhan Davies

Work Learning Believe Thinking You

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

Ronald Frame

Good Imagination Gift Go Way Writer

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

Mike D

Food Focus Always Us Lyrically

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Day Spiritual Become Possible

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

Bret McKenzie

Sad Happy Think Acting Play I Think

Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.

Brad Goreski

Red World You Events Watching Right

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

Paula Hawkins

People Writing You Want Crime Get

We all need a lot of humility, and especially about the economy.

Richard Thaler

Humility Need Economy About Lot

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

Richard Engel

American Violence Fall Presence Been