Steven Ford Quotes
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
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Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
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Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.
