Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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I don't think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It's a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
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You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
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Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
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Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
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Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
