John M. Ford Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
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Do not thy passions counteract What thy lips utter? Thy going in thy course into valleys, Dark without lights. And mine were his words. And mine were his languages.
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I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
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Putin should simply be called a dictator.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.
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Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.
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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
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There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
