Sam Harris Quotes

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Sam Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 9, 1967

Topics

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I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.

Anjelica Huston

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I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

Amy Heckerling

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The stage is such an investment, and it's so emotional that it's really hard to tell how that will go.

Stephen Dillane

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'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

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I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Stephen Rea

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On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

Snoop Dogg

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Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.

Tom Shales

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I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Loretta Lynn

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While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

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You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

Brian Tyree Henry

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I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

Peabo Bryson

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No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question.

Tyron Woodley

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