Heidi Julavits Quotes
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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I was really fat in school.
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You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.
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Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
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Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
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Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
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What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure.
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Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.
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I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.
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You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.
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It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
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I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.
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I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
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I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.
