Sam Harris Quotes

Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.

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• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Myself

• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Goal
  • Budget

• South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Family
  • House
  • Generation

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Writing
  • Laws
  • Taxes

• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Human Rights

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• That was a documentary!

  

  Daniel Ellsberg

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother

• Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Leadership
  • Coaching

• I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Death
  • Pain

• A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.

  

  Michael Newdow
  • People
  • Killing
  • Agree

• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

  

  Allan Stratton
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Miserable

• There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

  

  Bob Benson
  • Love
  • Song
  • Child

• Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.

  

  Sam Harris