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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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
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I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
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A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
