Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?
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I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
