Harold Ford, Jr. Quotes
To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.
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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
