Karen Armstrong Quotes
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
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I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
