Huston Smith Quotes
I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. What came through to them was dogmatism and moralism, and it rubbed them the wrong way.
Huston Smith
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
Queen Latifah
If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
Pat Burns
I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
Sally Phillips
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
Frances Wright
I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
Jack Vance
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
John Templeton
I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
James Murphy
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
Blaise Pascal
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
Chris Pine
I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. What came through to them was dogmatism and moralism, and it rubbed them the wrong way.
Huston Smith