Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.Ambrose Bierce
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
Taylor Swift
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
Samantha Power -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
Ja Rule -
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
Rachel Cusk -
We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
Gary Barlow Take That -
My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
Yul Vazquez -
I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
Dana Torres
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To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
John Waters -
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque -
The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
George Henry Lewes -
I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.
A. A. Milne -
Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Ambrose Bierce