Karen Armstrong Quotes
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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'Soul Plane' put me in a position to succeed. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
