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 is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
