Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Ambrose Bierce
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
Inga Cadranel -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
Ville Valo HIM -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
Damien Chazelle -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
Rachel Sklar -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
Vanna White -
Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
Tecumseh -
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Baldwin Spencer -
Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
Mae Jemison
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I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.
Emmitt Smith -
Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
Dacia Maraini -
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
Marti Noxon -
I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behind the veil or whatever you want to call it. Do you know what I mean? I got to see what makes Dr. Dre Dr. Dre, and I got to interpret that. It's hard to put it into words, so the only thing I know how to do is put it on the screen.
Corey Hawkins -
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.
Douglas Hofstadter -
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
Ambrose Bierce