Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.
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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
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If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
