Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.
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Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
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We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
