Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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Certain struggles never end.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
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No matter what, no matter how I feel, always bring effort.
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
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Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
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I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
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Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
