Huston Smith Quotes
After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
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I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"
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It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
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After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
