Ambrose Bierce Quotes
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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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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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
Maika Monroe
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
Edmund Hillary
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I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
Finn Jones
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
Taylor Swift
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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Chief Seattle
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It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
H. L. Mencken
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
Donald Trump
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
