Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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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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It's nice not to be too boring.
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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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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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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
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Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.
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We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
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Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
