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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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 am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
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Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.
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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.
