Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
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No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.
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I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.
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The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.
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Music brings life to my soul.
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What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
