Huston Smith Quotes
The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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What does dating mean?
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
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The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
