Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
Naomi Klein -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey -
Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies -
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom -
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
Sam Sheppard -
I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
Carlene Carter
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
Kate Winslet -
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Natalie Massenet -
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
J. D. Vance
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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
Neil LaBute -
I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they don’t know what they’re talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, 'I wish I knew as little about it as he does.'
Donald Barthelme -
You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig -
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato -
Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
Mary Beth Whitehead