Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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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.
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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.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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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.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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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.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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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.
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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.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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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.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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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.
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
