Stephen Ambrose Quotes
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
