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'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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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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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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The person who builds a character makes foes.
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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.
