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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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
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When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
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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.
