Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
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I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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The wrestler was up there with his wife, and I actually heard her say 'Can this thing do a loopty loop?'
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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.
