Stephen Ambrose Quotes
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.
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Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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You have Kurt Cobain, and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.
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I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
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Even half a chance beats none.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
