Stephen Ambrose Quotes

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Stephen Ambrose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

Megan Fox

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I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Maxine Peake

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I'm such a music geek, a music freak. I wake up in the morning, I press play.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

Stacy London

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It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

Steven Hill

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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning

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No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn

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Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

Ron Chernow

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When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But of course, I didn't have to take the usual immigrant route of battling to find a job and a home in a strange country. I could play tennis. I spoke the language, and I was making money. It was easy, really.

Martina Navratilova

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Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

Monte Irvin

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All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Judith Viorst

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