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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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
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I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
