John Ford Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.
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Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.
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If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
