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.Stephen Ambrose
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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.
Aaron Diehl -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Zachary Knighton -
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.
Odeya Rush -
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet Garrett
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
Maggie Wheeler -
I didn't aim at anything except good music.
Waylon Jennings -
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tamara Tunie -
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
Randy Harrison -
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.
Patricia Hewitt -
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.
Fernando Botero
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
Jack McDevitt -
The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.
Lucy Stone -
John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.
Alan Clark Dire Straits -
Example is the best lesson there is.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
Colin Powell -
Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
Jay Parini
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If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.
Douglas Alexander -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
Karl Popper -
Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
Liz Phair -
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.
Stephen Ambrose