Amy Gerstler Quotes

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

Amy Gerstler

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The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

Joe Conason

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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

John Shelby Spong

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The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

Amos Lee

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I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Simon Le Bon

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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Roger Nash Baldwin

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There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

Rose McIver

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I was a very shy kid and really into art.

Romy Madley Croft

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A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

Rush Limbaugh

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I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

Mat Kearney

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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

Douglas Coupland

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