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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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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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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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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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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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.
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I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
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I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.
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Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
