Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.
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I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.
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All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
