Stephen Ambrose Quotes
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
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Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
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He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
