Ambrose Bierce Quotes
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
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It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
