Stephen Ambrose Quotes

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Stephen Ambrose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002

Topics

HistoryProgressWarWinningWorld

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

John Trudell

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Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

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Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

Amy Cuddy

StrengthTrustPeopleInfluenceYou

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Stephen Covey

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If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

Song Joong-ki

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Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.

Juan Antonio Bayona

MemoriesPastSpeakPoliticalYou

Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.

Jean Chatzky

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When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Drew Barrymore

RespectGreatMeThinkNameAdvice

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

David Sedaris

TimeListeningYouWaySameIron

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

David Shields

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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

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