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.

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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
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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Lady Gregory
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• 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
  • Girl
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  • Waiting

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

  

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

  

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• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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

  

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

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
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  • Sports

• Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
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• I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • Travel
  • Sorry
  • Chocolate

• Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

  

  Courtney Love
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• I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Fear
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• 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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