Sam Harris Quotes
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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Days are long when you're filming, so I catch up on sleep during breaks to avoid looking tired.
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The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.
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It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
