Sam Harris Quotes
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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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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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.
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No matter which concern, problem or life-issue we may want to work on, risking and beginning to talk about it with a safe person or persons is a way out of the unnecessary burden of remaining silent. And when we tell our story from our hearts, bones and guts, we discover the truth about ourselves. Doing so is healing
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You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
