Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
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I dont see you holdin no aces.
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
