Stephen Ambrose Quotes
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.
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Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
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Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
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Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.
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"Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis."
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
