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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People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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I think that we have been able to demonstrate that we cannot just consume software, that we can create software that can be used all over the world, that we have that kind of talent in Africa.
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Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.
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I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.
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Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
