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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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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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
