Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.
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I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.
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The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
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Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
