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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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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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.
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I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.
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I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.
