Sam Quotes

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.

High expectations is the key to everything.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

What I expect is a little more respect from a fellow manager.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

If anything changes, I'll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.