Sam Harris Quotes
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
