Sam Harris Quotes
Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Forget goals. Value the process.
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I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
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We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
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Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.
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I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
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Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
