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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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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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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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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I am available for children's parties, by the way.
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The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.
