Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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• For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Ability
  • Privilege
  • Case

• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • You
  • Government
  • Privilege

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Being
  • Privilege

• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Love
  • Audience
  • Privilege

• When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gum

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

  

  William Hurt
  • Knows
  • Privilege

• Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Lie
  • Intellect
  • Privilege

• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  

  Bono U2
  • Privilege
  • Studio
  • Servants

• She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Line
  • Gum
  • Write A Book

• It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Day
  • Wake Up
  • Privilege

• People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said she stepped on gum when she came up to the stage and she couldn't move, so she had to stay in one spot otherwise people would see the Chiclet.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Moving
  • Said

• It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Privilege

• Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Needs
  • Privilege
  • Holiness

• It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Prayer
  • Duty
  • Privilege

• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Men
  • Happy

• What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Unique

• I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Way
  • Door
  • Revolution

• Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Privilege
  • Gum
  • Law School