Huston Smith Quotes
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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We thought it would be enough to tell of the tidal wave of hatred which broke over the Jewish people for men everywhere to decide once and for all to put an end to hatred of anyone who is 'different' - whether black or white, Jew or Arab, Christian or Moslem - anyone whose orientation differs politically, philosophically, sexually.
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I've played for a lot of tough crowds.
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My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
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You treat an idiot like an idiot.
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
