Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.
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And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
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God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
