Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
Barbara Sukowa -
I have to be seen to be believed.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Tamra Davis -
In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
Jack Zipes -
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
Zola Jesus -
I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
Val McDermid
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy -
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
Lana Del Rey -
I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
Natalie Merchant -
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
Naomie Harris -
I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
Yuri Kochiyama
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright -
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
F. Lee Bailey -
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
Ian Anderson -
We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
Karen Mills -
Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
Zach Anner -
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Felix Bloch
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.
Brian Tracy -
I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.
Abby Brammell -
I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
Samantha Barks -
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln -
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose