Sam Harris Quotes
Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places.Principle #2: Do not defend your property.Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.
Quotes to Explore
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
-
There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
-
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
-
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
-
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
-
I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
-
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
-
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
-
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
-
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
-
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
-
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
-
I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
-
I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
-
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
-
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
-
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.
-
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
-
Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
-
Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places.Principle #2: Do not defend your property.Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.
