Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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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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I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.
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College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
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I wrote most of 'Hello in There' in a relay box, which looks like a mail box, only bigger. Sometimes, it was so cold and windy on my mail route that I'd go inside the relay box and eat a sandwich, just to get away from the wind. I remember working on 'Hello in There' inside the relay box.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
