Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis -
There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
Gary Johnson
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde -
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
Sally Phillips -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
Waris Dirie
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
Wendy Kopp -
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
Ted Danson -
I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel -
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
Lady Gaga
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Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.
Joe Gebbia -
One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.
Jonathan Zittrain -
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner -
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca the Younger -
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce