Andrew Ford Quotes
If you’ve got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won’t have to worry about the gun part.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
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Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
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If you’ve got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won’t have to worry about the gun part.
