Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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Currently, differences remain in certain areas of the native API versus the BeOS API which make some things, even common things, not port correctly.
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To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
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Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.
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Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
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Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
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I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself -Salma
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
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Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
