Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland -
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig -
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
Natalie Massenet -
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
Raf Simons -
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. Rozan -
Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
Ed Sheeran -
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain -
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Naomi Klein -
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
Ice T
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
Billy Crudup -
There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
Wen Jiabao -
Be the optimist in the room.
Adena Friedman -
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.