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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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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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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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
