Sam Harris Quotes

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

Sam Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleWorldEndAmericanBuild

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

John C. Reilly

RideCreatingSummerDramaHuman

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

Andre Aciman

WeekAfterPlaneFlew

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Jeanette Winterson

AnimalCrazyBehaviorYouGoCage

Dance is such a stressful environment.

Mia Wasikowska

DanceEnvironmentStressful

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.

Steve Prefontaine

LoveMyselfHellCountryCompete

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

Rob Thomas

LoveTimeMeBookThinkThree

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand

WorkMyselfPeopleFamousKnowKind

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.

Miuccia Prada

PeopleFashionTalkingSayDays

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone

WomenKnowledgeTreeHealingLeaves

Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.

Jared Polis

PovertyReactUrbanIncentivesGive

Class still matters in Britain today.

Johnny Vegas

TodayClassMattersStillBritain

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.

Dolores O'Riordan

DayAmbitionHobbyPlayOne DayBig

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