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Huston Smith Quotes

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1919 - December 30, 2016

Topics

Science Vision Light I Am Universe

I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV.

Me World Stand Laugh Say Everything

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.

Melina Matsoukas

Comedy Look Create Kind Way Bright

I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.

Work Stronger Lesson Important Take

I am a huge supporter of the Waxman foundation.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I Am Foundation Am Huge Supporter

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

Society Country More Economy Civic

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mother School Child Me Law Place

My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.

Heart Done Nothing Breathing Changed

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Anthony Carmona

Memories Day Slavery First Through

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

Me Sweet Stubborn Someone Person

Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

Think Generation Grow Magic Body

Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.

Problems America Place Now Up Our

There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.

Good Go Know Legs Inside Outside

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