Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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I know how demanding show biz is. I fear that things would just end up bad if I'd date a colleague.
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Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.
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I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
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I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.
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We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
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Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
