Sam Harris Quotes
The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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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.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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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.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
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You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.
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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.
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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.
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I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.
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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.
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
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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.
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You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.
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I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
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I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
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Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
