Karen Armstrong Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
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The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.
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The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
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If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
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You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
