Sam Kean Quotes

In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

Sam Kean

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I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

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At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Matt Stone

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I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Maude Adams

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I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

Rob Brown

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His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

Mary Antin

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You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

Mo Collins

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Communication is something we all take for granted.

Miriam Margolyes

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I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

Lotte Verbeek

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Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

Johnny Vegas

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Against Novak, it's really tough for me to play, I mean, because he doesn't give me any time. I don't really like to play against him because he has a game style which doesn't fit me at all.

Dominic Thiem

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I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

Arjun Kapoor

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Historically, there is a presumption that the legitimate police powers of the states are not to be pre-empted by federal law unless Congress has made that purpose clear.

Asa Hutchinson

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