Karen Armstrong Quotes

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Karen Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 14, 1944

Topics

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I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

Jimmy Smits

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Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.

Rory MacLean

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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

Mary Beard

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As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Jared Polis

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Everything isn't political.

Jordan Peterson

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Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

Dianne Reeves

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

David Souter

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I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

Christie Hefner

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I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Chris Smith

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The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

Colin Angle

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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Boris Becker

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By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

Brad Paisley

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