Amy J. Berg Quotes
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
