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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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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I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.
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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.
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Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
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I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.
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Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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All -isms end up in schisms.
