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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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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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 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 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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Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.
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And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.
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I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
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While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
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It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
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What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
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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.
