Ambrose Bierce Quotes
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
Quotes to Explore
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It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.
Naveen Jain
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
Dan Hawkins
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
Mandy Patinkin
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Malcolm de Chazal
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
Nancy Travis
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I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
J. August Richards
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
D. J. Cotrona
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
Gary Ross
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
Maika Monroe
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Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
Charlton Heston
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All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to guide me on what I was doing, right or wrong... I wasn't a producer, and I didn't realize until then how important producers were and how much they assisted me in my work. I tried to do what I could, but I had no idea what would be good for the market.
Johnny Mathis
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You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.
Brad M. Carlson
Cheap Trick
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It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
Martin Amis
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My story has been the story of my generation.
Marianne Williamson
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
