Ambrose Bierce Quotes
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
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The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
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You have at hand many examples of good character from whom you will have learned the lessons by which you can live your own lives. You are blessed. Make the most of it.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
