Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
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I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
