Karen Armstrong Quotes
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Nature hates calculators.
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In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
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The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
