Karen Armstrong Quotes

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Nothing
  • Prove
  • Accomplished

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • City
  • London

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Done
  • Now
  • Products

• And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Feelings
  • Nation
  • Feed

• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Done
  • Practice

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Every
  • Pastor

• US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Want
  • Blue

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Building
  • Bank
  • Retail

• In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Just

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Important
  • Brother
  • Persons

• I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • Because
  • Girlfriend
  • Producer

• The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Culture
  • Die
  • Alive

• Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was.

  

  Chad Kultgen
  • Feel
  • Memory
  • Word

• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Lose
  • Fail
  • Traditions