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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  • Work
  • Smart

• 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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  • Believe
  • 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

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
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  • Up
  • Time

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

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

  

  Jeff Miller
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  • School

• I feel very lucky.

  

  Kate Jackson
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  • Lucky
  • I Feel

• I don't have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.

  

  Jason Kidd
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  • Player
  • Meditation

• Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.

  

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

  

  Karen Armstrong
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