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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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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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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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
