Ambrose Quotes
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
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I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
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As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
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In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
