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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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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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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With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
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You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
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The new curate seemed quite a nice young man, but what a pity it was that his combinations showed, tucked carelessly into his socks, when he sat down.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
