Huston Smith Quotes
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
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I'm very content.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.
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Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.
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Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
