Sam Quotes

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Being a father is just wonderful.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.

Just drop your bucket where you are.

I don't like driving much.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.