Sam Harris Quotes

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

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• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

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• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

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• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

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• A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

  

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• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

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• When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.

  

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• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

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• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

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• For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

  

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• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

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• Writers are so important.

  

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• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

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• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  

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• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

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• I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

  

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• 'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

  

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• I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

  

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• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion
  • Authority
  • Distinction

• There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Opinion
  • Difference
  • Islam