Karen Armstrong Quotes
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
Quotes to Explore
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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My co-star would be... One of my actual best friends. I am blessed to have so many beautiful talented people around me, I would like them all in my film please!!!
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
