Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.
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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
