Stephen Ambrose Quotes
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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The truth sustains me.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
