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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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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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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Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
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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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You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover.
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Strength is but one aspect of power.
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I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.
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You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.
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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
