Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’Rachel Grace Held
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
Edie Falco -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson -
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday -
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis -
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson -
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz -
Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
Dalton McGuinty -
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Gail Sheehy -
I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
La India -
I connect with people on a daily basis.
Zac Efron -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman
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I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.
Mark Strong -
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
Marge Piercy -
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami -
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham -
I don't wish to curse anyone. I just feel bad when women, especially, try to sabotage the image of another woman.
Divyanka Tripathi -
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’
Rachel Grace Held