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Stephen Ambrose Quotes

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Stephen Ambrose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Constitution American Greatest

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

Day You Dwell Over Big Like

Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

Car Woman Wise Amazing Me Cool

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Past Language Help You Fall Know

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

Think Laugh You Say Boring Just

When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my life where I started to see money differently.

Life Time Money Writing My Life See

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Work Practice Think You Way Need

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

Me Conversation Memorable President

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Life Time Politics Believe Problems

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Information More Kid Background

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

Live Day End Of The Day End Depend

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

Heart Myself Poetry World Think

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature Beautiful Walk Mistake Ideas

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