Karen Armstrong Quotes
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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I have fabulous children.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
