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Sam Kean Quotes

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Life Change Spiritual Earth Genetics

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Love Home Me Theatre Want First

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Art Money Space Dinner Push Places

I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.

Optimist Reporter Still Perpetual

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

Father Mother Know Actor Being

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Always Big Been Sucker Chorus

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Change Society Capitalism Values

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

Decision You Bad Pictures Done Rent

Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.

Door Looking Country Exit He Before

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery Hold Take Many Few Takes

When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections.

Science World Thought End Real

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Jonathan Galassi

Poetry Think Feelings Deepest Always

Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Brian Behlendorf

End Country More Foreign Aid Engage

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