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.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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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.
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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.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Sure, sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least partially. They make nothing in the United States, virtually.
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I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
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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.
