Ambrose Quotes
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
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My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
