Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

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• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Job
  • Best

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Career
  • Crazy

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Good
  • Job
  • Community

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Job
  • Think

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he's driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Job
  • Road
  • Driving

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Kiss
  • Hug
  • Graduation

• It Justice is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Virtue
  • Sense

• I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Laughing

• We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
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