Karen Armstrong Quotes
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
