Sam Harris Quotes
Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
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Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.
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Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
