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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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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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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I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
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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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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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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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I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.
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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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Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.
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I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.
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I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.
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I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.
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All -isms end up in schisms.
