Huston Smith Quotes
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
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I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!
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'It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
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Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
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I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action.
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I watched my wild youth disappear in front of my eyes. Moments of magic and wonder, it seems so hard to find. Is it ever coming back again?
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As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
