Sam Harris Quotes
20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.
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I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!
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What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
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I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
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20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.
