Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
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Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
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Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.
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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
