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.Karen Armstrong
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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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
Damian McGinty -
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
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.
Zach Woods
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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.
Pamela Sargent -
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.
Parker Posey -
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig -
'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.
Laila Ali -
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
Garrett Neff -
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
Randall Terry
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
R. Kelly -
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul -
This Islam business kidnapped me.
Oriana Fallaci -
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.
A. S. Byatt -
Equality for women is progress for all.
Ban Ki-moon -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
Jay-Z -
The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.
Douglas Coupland -
Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
Lewis Howes -
I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.
Barun Sobti -
I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.
Geert Wilders -
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.
Karen Armstrong