Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I like to do Pilates.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
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I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people.
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I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.
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Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
