Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.
