William Clay Ford, Sr. Quotes
The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
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I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
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The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.
