Karen Armstrong Quotes

All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.

Karen Armstrong

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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.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Writing
- Book
- True
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Me
- Collection
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

Edith Pearlman
- World
- Language
- Natural
My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

Gael Garcia Bernal
- Up
- She
- Fun
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

Inge de Bruijn
- Mean
- Never
- Doubt
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

Kara DioGuardi
- People
- Trying
- Book