Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
