Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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I'm easy to hate.
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I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
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I never had a kid before, and it's the best. It's something you're privileged to be part of, and my favorite things in the world are my kid and wife.
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Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
