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Sam Kean Quotes

Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

Sam Kean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Water Skin Contact Pure Cells Metal

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

John Lennon

People Way Worship Critics Up Idol

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

People You Oppression First Convince

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

Simon Schama

Small Story Special Over Everything

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Tris Speaker

Great Baseball Luck

I always loved watching films. I've always been active, pretending I was a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle. I remember watching 'Toy Story.' I think that was one of my first movies.

Trevante Rhodes

Power Story Think Loved Remember

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

History Art Modern Modern Art Just

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Louis Zamperini

Sports Fight Learn You Finish Up

The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.

Loni Love

Great Me Advice Late Nice She

Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

Jared Polis

Food Priorities Selling Cheap High

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

Dmitri Alperovitch

You Want Used Against Only Risky

I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.

Clive Granger

Work Health Measure Investment Whole

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Branch Rickey

Thinking Devil Seeing Worse Than