Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
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The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
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Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
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You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
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I'm not optimistic.
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Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.
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To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
