Sam Kean
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THOMAS KEAN Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. A... THOMAS KEAN They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may ... THOMAS KEAN The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and ... THOMAS KEAN There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership... THOMAS KEAN Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to ... THOMAS KEAN We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service ... THOMAS KEAN It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild i... THOMAS KEAN All 10 of us have decided to do everything we can, whether it's testimony or lobbying or speaking or... THOMAS KEAN It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened. THOMAS KEAN I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us b... THOMAS KEAN There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented, LESLIE KEAN We can't come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won't even ack... LESLIE KEAN We also had a competition between the males and the females for ice cream at lunch. Many of the kids... JUSTIN KEAN What we'll be doing is helping our management [team] manage better by taking the divisions that have... KEAN REGISTER As an interim city manager, you kind of hold the line until a new city manager is hired. The council... KEAN REGISTER My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take th... THOMAS H. KEAN I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That's simply not acceptable. THOMAS H. KEAN We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know th... THOMAS KEAN, JR. In a cool solitude of treesWILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR SAM WALTON SAM YAGAN SAM HOUSTON SAM KEEN SAM KEEN SAM LEVENSON SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. 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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. 
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many... 
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. 
The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather t... 
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. 
I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... 
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. 
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach supers... 
Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because... 
Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will b... 
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest;
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!
T... 
Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all thei... 
the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands... 
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environme... 
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos... 
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, i... 
And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"
Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetu... 
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely ha... 
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ... 
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and ... 
When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't f... 
They want to give away the taxpayers' gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, they'd ... 
Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha... 
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn... 
If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have e... 
Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Clevelan... 
The universe has inspired so many reasons behind the reasons we know! 
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doub... 
The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more pote... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Word's so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and e... 
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and pre... 
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change ... 
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have a... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modifi... 
You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the
honesty and intelligence of the mem... 
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the la... 
Love is the best drug, bar none. 
In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". 
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise famili... 
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise famili... 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers. 
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance ... 
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow s... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
The comeback of true green olives was part of a Spanish food revival in the early 2000s. I credit Sa... 
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers;... 
RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his con... 
The defining characteristic of a hipster—the thing everyone agreed on, and most hated about them�... 
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way 
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overca... 
The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c... 
I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down reb... 
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. 
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ... 
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr... 
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. 
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal... 
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul... 
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... 
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. 
If you want to get along, go along.