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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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
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We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.
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I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
