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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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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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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Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
