Stephen Ambrose Quotes

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

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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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• I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

  

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• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

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• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Country
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• During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

  

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• Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Death
  • Slave