Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
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The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
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We will continue to work with the projects that you all head up.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.