Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
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Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
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Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
