Huston Smith Quotes
...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!
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I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'
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I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.
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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.
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It is still on the front burner. We really have to get the story right. The story has to be really good for any of us to do it, and there are three pretty strong-willed creative minds involved in saying yes.
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When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
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...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
