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 don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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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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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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My life is my message.
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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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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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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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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?
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We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.
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God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team.
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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.
