Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!Her equal would be hard to find.She lost one dad and mother,A sister and a brother-But she would make up her mind.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong-deadly wrong–to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
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Capital, n. The seat of misgovernment.
