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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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  • Couple
  • Credit

• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
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  • Too Much

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
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  • Too

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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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.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
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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.

  

  Zach Braff
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• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Lose

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
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• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
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  • Motorcycle

• 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.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
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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.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

  Ralph Nader
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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.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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  • Him

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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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.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
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• If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

  

  Alison Sweeney
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• Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Black
  • Running
  • Gay

• 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Work
  • American
  • Party

• If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Life

• Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Question

• Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
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