Sam Harris Quotes
Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
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I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
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When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.
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One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
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There's so many ways to become a spiritual person and that's why a lot of people do drugs is that they're looking for something more and they're not satisfied. Even if they don't know their spirituality, they're searching for something more and they find it or they think they do with drugs, and that's what I thought for a long time.
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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
