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?'
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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.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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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.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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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.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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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
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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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.
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
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It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.
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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.
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I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.
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Cause I am a Superwoman, Yes I am, Yes she is, Even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest, With an S on my chest, Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman, ... And all my sisters, Coming together, Say yes I will, Yes I can
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
