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.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
  • Dogs

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Military
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Want
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Flowers

• 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.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Serious
  • Competition
  • Injuries

• When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Nature
  • You
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Level

• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Help
  • Singing

• The 'Teen Wolf' fans are so great.

  

  Charlie Carver
  • Great
  • Teen
  • Wolf

• Most of our lives we live closed up in ourselves, with a longing not to be alone, to include others in that life that is invisible and intangible. To make it visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what had been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or in our dreams.

  

  Anni Albers
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Consciousness

• Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Long
  • Community

• My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Long
  • Parents
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
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