Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
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I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots.
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The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
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Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
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Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
