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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I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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Don't read my diary when I'm gone.
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You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you.
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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.
