Stephen Ambrose Quotes
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
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I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
