Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose Bierce
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
Barbara Walters
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
Aaron Neville
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Jack Ma
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
Barry Manilow
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
W. G. Sebald
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
Barry Manilow
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Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
Zhou Yongkang
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Aaron Sorkin
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
Maiara Walsh
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Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was a good rifle company and I was happy to get it. Captain Diduryk was twenty-seven years old, a native-born Ukrainian who had come to the United States with his family in 1950. He was an ROTC graduate of St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey, and was commissioned in July of 1960. He had completed paratrooper and Ranger training and had served tours in Germany and at Fort Benning. Diduryk was married and the father of two children. He was with his mortar platoon at Plei Me camp when he got the word by radio of his company’s new mission.
Hal Moore
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
C. S. Lewis
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I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on...in other words, I write by recording.
Zach Condon
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
William Blake
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose Bierce