Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Ambrose Bierce
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There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
Rani Mukerji
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
Ed Koch
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Yo-Yo Ma
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
Ja Rule
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
C. S. Lewis
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Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?
James A. Garfield
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
Elizabeth Berg
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Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Ambrose Bierce