Sam Kean Quotes

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

Sam Kean

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I want to be that type of guy - I want to be Kobe Bryant. I want to be Tim Duncan. I want to be Dirk Nowitzki - stay with one team my whole career.

Joel Embiid

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Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

John Delaney

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I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

Meg Wolitzer

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It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

Meg Wolitzer

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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

John Oates

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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Jeb Bush

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Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

Amy Sedaris

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We've all got to come together, and we've got to protect what's left of our ancient forests on this planet.

Stella McCartney

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Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'

Jonathan LaPaglia

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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Jonathan Sacks

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But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

Diane Lane

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Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.

Deborah K. Ross

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