Charles Hugh Smith Quotes
The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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I first met Solange at a party for her gorgeous and inspiring website, Saint Heron. I'd already had so many phases of listening exclusively to 2012's 'True' and admired her activism and radiant style.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.
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An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbol in discourse, not actually existing things.
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.
