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You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
HUSTON SMITH We got into a little foul trouble and I thought Chris Smith and Mike Woods came in a did a great job...
LES POORE Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN Metaphysics is a science.
GABRIEL MARCEL Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and ...
HENRY W. KENDALL Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom
WILL DURANT The good Lord made us man and woman, but Smith and Wesson made us equal
DAVID JAYE My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Science has given us the truth but taken away our tranquillity.
AMIT KALANTRI The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t...
US CONSTITUTION Everything starts with Smith. He beats you with his arms and his legs. Stopping Smith will give us a...
VICTOR ABIAMIRI This used to be the woods. The town has found us.
LARRY DEESE No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to...
JULIAN BAGGINI But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system be...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not becau...
KARL A. MENNINGER If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...
WILLIAM BARRETT As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descr...
JONATHAN SACKS Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
IMMANUEL KANT Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is
VOLTAIRE But this new tournament has given us something new to aim for.
DEAN WILLIAMS The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, pro...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, pro...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Steve Smith, that's what happened to us.
BRIAN URLACHER The Coast Guard helps us out with that when we have to get into areas where it's tough to do a rescu...
LT. DENNIS DINSMORE The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imagi...
DAN BROWN Though it's fearful,
Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
STEPHEN HAWKING New Mexico ended up punching us in the mouth but our guys didn't collapse. Every week it's just gott...
HECTOR RODRIGUEZ No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
SIGMUND FREUD Unfortunately, Superintendent Smith is not with us today, but in memory of his dedication and commit...
CARLOS RAMIREZ I think this will help us play well. Sometimes when we play at home we can stagnate, but playing in ...
GEORGE ARROYO In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspe...
ERIC KANDEL She pitched a real good game and kept us off balance. It's unusual for us to not hit the ball. We ju...
ALAN PEACOCK Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with gree...
HENRY TIMROD Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court wit...
HENRY TIMROD Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can se...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable app...
NIKOLA TESLA The naive lose it in dark woods, but seek it under the street lamps.
TOBA BETA If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, befo...
HENRIK IBSEN Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't ...
LUIS VON AHN But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using...
SCARLETT THOMAS Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
JEAN ROSTAND This takes us into a new era. Such a magnificent complex allows us to do so many more things.
GORDON JAGO Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological think...
STANISLAV GROF is a trust given to us by God to rescue it from the settlements.
YASSER ARAFAT What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
JUSTIN CRONIN Huston dives into everything full force, no matter what he does, ... He always was very competitive,...
JAMES STREET The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps.
TOBA BETA Fantasyland communicates with the part of us that believes we can fly, and knows that there are mons...
LESLIE LE MON Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different ...
NIKOLA TESLA We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUIN The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
SHERYL LEE The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silenc...
JAMES ROZOFF Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have ...
ADRIAN FORSYTH It's not an exact science, but it gives us a gauge in terms of whether the consumer likes or dislike...
BRIAN WALLACE We really, really focused on A.J. (Smith). Nick just ate us up.
DAVID MCGREAL The only easy day was yesterday.
US NAVY SEALS Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give lab...
US SUPREME COURT The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
ROBERT FROST We are all hoping on hope to rescue us from life's miseries.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the...
DAVID TRIMBLE For too long we've been told about "us" and "them." Each and every election we see a new slate of ar...
BILL CLINTON History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents witho...
DON MALONEY As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - a...
STEPHEN HAWKING We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are tur...
JOE DISPENZA Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 If Religion has raised us into a new...
WILLIAM LAW Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whisper...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in t...
DOUGLAS LAIN Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
THABO MBEKI Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
HEINZ R. PAGELS It's someone who's going to help us -- me and my family and other people (who are) coming along. It'...
KATIE JOHNSON This new facility has given us the opportunity to expand our services. It's open and spacious, and w...
DEBBIE KING We're always getting different stories, and lately we've been kept totally in the dark nobody has to...
CAROL NIHUS Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD The president has certainly given us new hope.
BOB NOUN Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouti...
GLEN COOK I think the fast development of Chinese science has drawn increased attention from the US academy.
BAI CHUNLI There is nothing new about turning science into politics. This has been going on for some time in th...
DR. JOEL GALLANT Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS We can all take what once hurt us and turn it into what heals us.
BRITTANY BURGUNDER Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can e...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secu...
AMORY LOVINS We see him as a guy who's played well, has started, so he has experience, has speed and can help us ...
JACK DEL RIO A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Unified messaging is a bonus for us because it helps us stay far more connected. But it can be hard ...
HOWIE GOLD I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the...
JAMES WAN There has to be a delineation between campaign activity and official activity, ... If I issue a pres...
DENNIS KENNEDY A lot of damage has been done, but we are hoping it can be repaired. We still have a lot of people w...
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HUSTON SMITH Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses ar...
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HUSTON SMITH With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
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HUSTON SMITH When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made m...
HUSTON SMITH Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then...
HUSTON SMITH The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals...
HUSTON SMITH You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
HUSTON SMITH Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
HUSTON SMITH I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've do...
HUSTON SMITH Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?
HUSTON SMITH There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that?...
HUSTON SMITH In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
HUSTON SMITH Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.
HUSTON SMITH Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulate...
HUSTON SMITH I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big ba...
HUSTON SMITH God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
HUSTON SMITH First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because rel...
HUSTON SMITH I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...
HUSTON SMITH The most powerful moral influence is example.
HUSTON SMITH Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists...
HUSTON SMITH I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking th...
HUSTON SMITH I've always considered myself a character actor.
JACK HUSTON Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
JACK HUSTON The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striki...
JACK HUSTON Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and...
JACK HUSTON My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, b...
JACK HUSTON I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've...
JACK HUSTON Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being...
JACK HUSTON You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
JACK HUSTON I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are ...
JACK HUSTON I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneylan...
ANJELICA HUSTON Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress i...
JOHN HUSTON After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
JOHN HUSTON Of course drugs were fun.
ANJELICA HUSTON Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
JOHN HUSTON Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with i...
ALLEGRA HUSTON Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's wh...
CHARLIE HUSTON That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, t...
ANJELICA HUSTON I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
ANJELICA HUSTON It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin-but its becoming more and more rarified.
ANJELICA HUSTON Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
ANJELICA HUSTON I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I...
ANJELICA HUSTON I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of t...
ANJELICA HUSTON I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then...
ANJELICA HUSTON Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit th...
ANJELICA HUSTON I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all th...
ANJELICA HUSTON Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
ANJELICA HUSTON I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never...
WALTER HUSTON I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - s...
ANJELICA HUSTON You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a d...
JOHN HUSTON It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particul...
ANJELICA HUSTON Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us w...
DANNY HUSTON I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I w...
ALLEGRA HUSTON I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to...
ANJELICA HUSTON Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, ...
DANNY HUSTON They're going to do something that compliments the neighborhood. It's going to make everyone happy. ...
MONIQUE HUSTON I assumed that the collaboration between the writer and artist would be fairly intimate, a lot of ba...
CHARLIE HUSTON I've never been seasick. Carsick, but never seasick.
ANJELICA HUSTON I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what y...
ANJELICA HUSTON There's always that question of what do you do first thing in the morning-hair and makeup or do you ...
ANJELICA HUSTON I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
ANJELICA HUSTON I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I thi...
ANJELICA HUSTON I think most actors like to be liked.
ANJELICA HUSTON I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time wit...
ANJELICA HUSTON What to do when inspiration doesn't come: Be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things int...
JOHN HUSTON I wasn't there long enough to hear them say what they were.
JOHN HUSTON We are appalled that this movie, marketed primarily to teens and young adults, blatantly makes light...
STEVE HUSTON I hit the ball out there far enough to compete, but you've got to putt, ... I've missed so many shor...
JOHN HUSTON I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
JOHN HUSTON The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controllin...
JOHN HUSTON It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
JOHN HUSTON I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
JOHN HUSTON One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye t...
CHARLIE HUSTON I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in w...
ANJELICA HUSTON My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an a...
ANJELICA HUSTON My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extrem...
ANJELICA HUSTON You go through a whole procedure before you can even pitch an idea. They would only talk to me very ...
CHARLIE HUSTON The truth is, because of where the technology is now, the artists are really spread out.
CHARLIE HUSTON Other than one putt, I made just about every putt that I should have made today,
JOHN HUSTON If I would have just selected the few tournaments to play at the end of the year or whatever, I prob...
JOHN HUSTON I could either just kind of halfway give up for the year, or start playing every week and try to get...
JOHN HUSTON I'm not that worried about the whole top 125 thing, but it certainly would be nice to finish strong ...
JOHN HUSTON And for whatever reason, I just don't putt like I used to. I think everything feeds off of that. You...
JOHN HUSTON I like when scoring conditions are good and the weather's good,
JOHN HUSTON Hopefully. It hasn't been a very good year.
JOHN HUSTON It was really no big deal then, and still isn't to me. I think the whole problem with it is they mad...
JOHN HUSTON I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
ANJELICA HUSTON I think that John is also making that point to the American voter who feels that he can't make a dif...
DANNY HUSTON I'd been in Kenya previously working on The Constant Gardener ,
DANNY HUSTON If one got too concerned with motivation, his eyes would kind of roll. He and John have collaborated...
DANNY HUSTON Nick was wonderful to have around because he's just such a straight talker,
DANNY HUSTON About Hollywood.
I feel like it’s a big ocean, full of bottom feeders, midlevel fish, the occ...
ANJELICA HUSTON Hopefully this will jump start the year and get me going on the right track. This is going to get me...
HUSTON STREET This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've nev...
HUSTON STREET I heard a lot of good stories from guys who had played [in the AFL] and I considered it a pretty big...
HUSTON STREET You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about wal...
HUSTON STREET They turned that so quick, I didn't think they'd have a chance. Right there, that's the game.
HUSTON STREET That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.
HUSTON STREET You've definitely got to be careful. That last pitch he could have hit 450 feet. Their whole lineup ...
HUSTON STREET But just when you feel like you need a little help, he'll come in with a little adjustment that ends...
HUSTON STREET He steps in when he needs to, and he knows when to back off,
HUSTON STREET If you're surprised by getting the job done, that means you didn't expect it out of yourself.
HUSTON STREET The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's goin...
DANNY HUSTON I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
DANNY HUSTON I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of mon...
DANNY HUSTON I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though...
DANNY HUSTON When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.
DANNY HUSTON Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.
DANNY HUSTON I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
DANNY HUSTON I seem to play a lot of losers.
DANNY HUSTON There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don'...
DANNY HUSTON Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that ...
DANNY HUSTON As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hat...
DANNY HUSTON The department's philosophy is that career-technical students should be prepared for both work and c...
PAT HUSTON Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
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EMMITT SMITH In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
ZADIE SMITH I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fonde...
ZADIE SMITH There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
ZADIE SMITH When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...
ZADIE SMITH If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...
ZADIE SMITH I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...
ZADIE SMITH Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equa...
ZADIE SMITH The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ...
ZADIE SMITH The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITH Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
YEARDLEY SMITH A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
YEARDLEY SMITH Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
YEARDLEY SMITH Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport...
YEARDLEY SMITH You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
YEARDLEY SMITH My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband...
TASHA SMITH I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help...
TASHA SMITH I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w...
TASHA SMITH We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h...
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TASHA SMITH I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a...
TASHA SMITH Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work ...
TASHA SMITH When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great opti...
TASHA SMITH There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of ...
TASHA SMITH There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I c...
TASHA SMITH Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he&...
TASHA SMITH I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
TASHA SMITH I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... wor...
TASHA SMITH When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check whe...
TASHA SMITH I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go...
TASHA SMITH No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha...
TASHA SMITH I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got t...
TASHA SMITH Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be ev...
TASHA SMITH Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, ma...
TASHA SMITH Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new ...
TASHA SMITH There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afrai...
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