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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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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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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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.
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Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
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I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
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For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
