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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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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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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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
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I get along great with all of my exes. That's really cool. That's a good sign.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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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.
