Huston Smith Quotes
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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You have to open up on stage.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
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Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.
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I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.
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I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
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The drop shots and lobs are very effective in senior tennis.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
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Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.
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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
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All -isms end up in schisms.
