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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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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.
