Huston Smith Quotes

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

Huston Smith

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• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

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• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
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• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

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• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

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• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  

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• Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

  

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

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• I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors.  It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.

  

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• The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.

  

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• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

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• True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

  

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• That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?

  

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• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

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• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

  

  Sam Harris
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• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

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• To be human means to feel inferior.

  

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• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

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• Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress

  

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• Che per amor venne in furore e matto,d'huom che si saggio era stimato prima.

  

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• When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
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• I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

  

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• I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

  

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• I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • History
  • Civilizations