Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
