Karen Armstrong Quotes
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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We should not be acting precipitously to undermine the basic tenet of this program, that has worked well for 70 years by providing a defined, guaranteed benefit.
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The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
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I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.
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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
