Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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«This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why.»
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Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.
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‘Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.’
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
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the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
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To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
