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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We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.
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On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.
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A black woman's handbook in this industry is, 'Whoa.' The chapter on 'Don't go there.' The chapter on 'How to say that nicely,' how to express that you don't like something so that you don't lose the opportunity - which is what we're doing all day long.
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Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.
