Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money-not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' the instructor replied, 'it's not relevant to men.'
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
