Sam Harris Quotes

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
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• When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Suffering

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
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• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
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• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • God
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• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
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  • Other

• I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Way

• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
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  • California

• Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Music

• Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Family
  • High

• When you say journalist, it's like oh - how many sources have you fact checked? When you say photographer - it's, why are your photos a little bit out of focus? The answer is because I don't care. I like to call myself a storyteller so I don't have to worry about other people's definition of what correct work is.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Work
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• The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Women
  • Earth