Stephen Ambrose Quotes
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
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The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.
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It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
