Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
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You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.
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When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.
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I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.
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'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
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My mother was really courageous.
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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
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Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.
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Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
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I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
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While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.
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Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.
