Stephen Ambrose Quotes
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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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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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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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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My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
