William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes
There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific reason, like someone's arguing over a fence that's been put up that's too high. Sort of practical things. And journalists are rarely sued for things. Whereas in America, you have a culture where that's the first thing you do. There's an ongoing pattern here where if you've got money, you can bully other people into doing what you want them to do. You don't need to be in it to win, you just need to be in it to be a pest.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
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There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
