Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.Ambrose Bierce
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown -
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz -
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
Kate Winslet -
If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
Wang Jianlin -
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
Gail Sheehy -
The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
Patrick McHenry
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
Young Buck -
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. Doctorow -
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.
Patricia Ireland -
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.
Beau Willimon -
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.
Oona Chaplin -
The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
Vince McMahon
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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.
Mandy Patinkin -
«This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why.»
Mariano Rajoy -
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.
Marvin Gaye -
‘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.’
Agatha Christie -
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.
Edward Snowden -
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.
Little Richard
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks -
If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.
Peter Zumthor -
The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!
Val Venis -
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
James Baldwin -
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
J. B. Pritzker -
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce