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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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
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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.
