Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that then-President George W. Bush garnered.
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
