Huston Smith Quotes
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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When you have such a following, you can influence all these people, not only older people, but the younger people.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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The most powerful moral influence is example.
