William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes
I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done.
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I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.
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I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
