Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Shoes

• I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Walks

• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fun

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Lost
  • Instructions

• I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

  

  Michael Gerber
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Difference

• As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith