Stephen Ambrose Quotes

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Years
  • End
  • Fast

• You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Think
  • House
  • Hate

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Way
  • Stories

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Family
  • Google
  • Soviet

• There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • See
  • Something

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Business

• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Morning

• My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Person

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • U.S.
  • Fatigue
  • Cowards

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Words
  • Me
  • Discipline

• If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...

  

  Larry Wall

• If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Up
  • American

• The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.

  

  Jake Barton
  • Memorial

• Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Today
  • Obstacles

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you’ll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just “us and “them”, and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

  

  David Moody
  • Fighting
  • Impossible
  • Differences

• When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Rock

• We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Country
  • Today
  • Existence