Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
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Pair up in threes.
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I have a lot to weigh: the basis of public service, which I've given my life to, a career choice. And most importantly, what I want to do as a parent. I know something about the White House. That, I assume, is one of the reasons that President-elect Obama would like me to serve. But I also know something about what it means to a family.
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Every wishIs like a prayer-with God.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner -
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
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The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.
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I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
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There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
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Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?
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The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
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Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
