Sam Harris Quotes
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.Sam Harris
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Xi Jinping -
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall -
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman -
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
Vaclav Klaus -
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
Daniel Cudmore
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
Queen Latifah -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix -
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
Gary Johnson
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
Alex Berenson -
I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.
Laurence Fishburne -
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Christopher Isherwood -
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other.
Albert Bandura -
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
Douglas Sirk -
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
Sam Harris