William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.
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My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
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My father didn't push me.
