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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The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it's really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents.
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What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
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It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.
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Wait till you’ve washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years.
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The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
