Harrison Ford Quotes
It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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History proves nothing because it contains everything.
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The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.
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I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.
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It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
