Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Of course, it is my goal to win the Ballon d'Or, but I am not going to kill myself for it.
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In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.
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When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.
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Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
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Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
