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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When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.
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I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.
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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.
