Ambrose Bierce Quotes
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
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I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.
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I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
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These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
