Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
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People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
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It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
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Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
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Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.
