Nancy Eimers Quotes
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
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My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.
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Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.
