Karen Armstrong Quotes

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Mobile Phones

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
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  • Talent
  • Just

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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  • Truth

• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
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  • Live

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
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  • You

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Driving
  • Blame

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Movie
  • Know

• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Office
  • Observation

• I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • Technology
  • Security

• I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

  

  Anita Baker
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  • Mother

• I've always found men to be incredible allies, particularly with their perspective.

  

  Lela Loren
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  • Perspective

• This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Heart

• Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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