Sam Harris Quotes
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.Sam Harris
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
Danica Patrick -
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky -
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Quintilian -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. Wilson -
Cussing ain't for everybody.
Eric Lynn Wright
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner -
Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
Dan Gilbert -
I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
Caity Lotz -
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
Carine Roitfeld -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp -
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Venus Williams -
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
Obie Trice -
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
Fedor Emelianenko -
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
Sam Brownback -
As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
Gary Locke
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Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson -
'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.
Dario Argento -
Accenture Interactive is working with many of the world's leading brands to transform the customer experience.
Pierre Nanterme -
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
Washed Out -
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes -
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
Sam Harris