Karen Armstrong Quotes
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I no longer limit myself.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
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Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
