Sam Harris Quotes

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Mexican

• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Big

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Team
  • Said
  • Times

• I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Doing
  • Year

• You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Hardships

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Together
  • Society

• I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Takes

• The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Time
  • Film
  • Period

• Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Age

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.

  

  David Limbaugh

• TV is not accurate.

  

  Joe Torre

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Career
  • Theatre
  • Commitment

• The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Shadow
  • Living

• The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

  

  Sam Harris