Huston Smith Quotes
What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
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There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.
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Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
