Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.Ambrose Bierce
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker -
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
Dan Marino -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
Nacho Figueras -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr -
I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
Karen Handel -
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Zac Brown Band -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes -
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
Idina Menzel -
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
Pat Buchanan -
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky
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The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
Drew Goddard -
I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Cameron Diaz -
You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
Lady Gaga -
Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce