Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
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I think it's important to take a look behind the numbers, ... As the economy gains steam and people gain confidence about their job prospects they will declare themselves back in the job market and the unemployment rate may increase. That's I think what we're seeing today.
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The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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You have really hard times and you have really good years and you have years that you can't feed your family and you have to sell cars. I gotta tell you, stealing cars is a hell of a lot more fun than selling them!
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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her book cart as she wheeled it down the aisle, and the books themselves, symbols of order on their backs - young adulthood reduced to "YA," mystery reduced to a tiny red skull.”
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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
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One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.
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We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
