Sam Harris Quotes
But from a deeper perspective (speaking both objectively and subjectively), thoughts simply arise unauthored and yet author our actions.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
Zuleikha Robinson
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
Gary Johnson
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
Dan Webster
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
Barney Ross
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
Narciso Rodriguez
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
Leroy Hood
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Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun.
Chrystia Freeland
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An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
Gaston Leroux
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But from a deeper perspective (speaking both objectively and subjectively), thoughts simply arise unauthored and yet author our actions.
Sam Harris