William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
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There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.
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When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.
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I concentrate on doing good projects.
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I have no patience for wasting time.
