Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.
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Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.
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We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.
