Huston Smith Quotes
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
Olga Fonda -
We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
Ramez Naam -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd -
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx -
Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
Karen Salmansohn
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
India de Beaufort -
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Orson Welles -
Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
Ad Reinhardt -
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin -
People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton John -
It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin -
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
Bill Keller -
While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
Amy Waldman -
Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.
Demi Moore -
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
Corey Hart
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However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
Benedict Joseph Labre -
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson -
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
Huston Smith