Stephen Ambrose Quotes

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Stephen Ambrose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleBuildingsMoreHighDestroyed

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

John Grierson

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Wow. I am really pretentious.

Rob Corddry

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Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

Michelle Alexander

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I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Josh Radnor

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We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

Jose Andres

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I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

Common

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I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British '80s pop, like The Trashcan Sinatras. I grew up on that. It was great. They were the first people to really bring music into my life.

Clairo

LifeMusicGreatSoulParentsMom

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

Bruno Mars

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To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

Arthur Herzog

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When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.

Woody Harrelson

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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Alfred Nobel

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I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

Two Chainz

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