Karen Armstrong Quotes
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I want to be my own person.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.
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My life is really so much based in England.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
