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Sam Kean Quotes

I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'

Sam Kean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Myself People Brain Reading Story

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom People Mediocrity Ambitious

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

Steven Weber

Social Media People Media Minds Bell

I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

Trombone Shorty

Education Music Listening Pride Want

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Milan Kundera

Good Bad Place Order Act Things

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

Min Jin Lee

Life Age Together Getting Older You

People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

Julia Davis

Work Funny People World Place True

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

Deborah Kara Unger

Love People Understand Cruise Out

With 'House Party 4,' I did it with my own money, and I sold it to New Line.

Chris Stokes

Money House Party New My Own Line

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Work Great Job You Connection Go

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Peter L. Berger

Work Change Relationship Culture

I want to age with some dignity.

Pete Townshend

Age Dignity Want Some

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.

Nicolas Roeg

Movies Difficult Market Been