Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
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When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
