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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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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.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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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.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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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.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.
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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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I like to take pictures of my Starbucks cups because, while I don't think my name is that difficult, apparently it is!
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Alix MacKenzie had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.
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It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.
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Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
