William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes
My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
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I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.
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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.
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I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.
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The true success is the person who invented himself.
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My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.
