Karen Armstrong Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds -
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt -
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 -
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 -
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
Natalie Dormer -
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Idina Menzel -
If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
Nargis Fakhri -
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 don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Nancy Gibbs -
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
Victor LaValle -
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 -
I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
Edmund White -
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Malcolm Fraser
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I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
Chelsea Cain -
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
Carrie Fisher -
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.
Brie Larson -
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
Martine McCutcheon -
Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
Marianne Williamson -
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Karen Armstrong