Stephen Ambrose Quotes

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

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• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Doubt
  • Lead
  • Hatred

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Winter

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Acting
  • Actress

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Better
  • Now
  • Competitive

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• I would like to be more active outside of Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Like
  • More
  • Israel

• Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Guy

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Important
  • Women
  • Mind

• Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..

  

  Marc Chagall
  • God
  • Money
  • Small

• I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Community
  • Dad

• Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

  

  James Michael Aloysius Bradford
  • Up
  • Hate

• I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

  

  Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • School

• You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
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