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I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways. ↗

— Rick Baker

#awful #come #different #different ways #ever

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

#breeds #chaos #habit #life #often

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#fit #found #going #good #good place

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#bad #college #college students #did #done

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#character #found #his #man #out

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#how #joyfully #kindly #live #midst

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#buddhists #describe #god #much #nirvana

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#before #christ #confucius #first #golden