Karen Armstrong Quotes
People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
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I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'
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I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
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People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.
