Sam Harris Quotes
There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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I was embarrassed by it and racked by middle-class guilt. But when you're on stage, if you're trying to be something you're not, it becomes so much harder. It's better to be honest and take every vulnerability and flaw you have, and mock them and deal with them.
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We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
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'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.
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If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
