Stephen Ambrose Quotes
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I'm curvy.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
