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 wear the phone out, calling the Kansas Payment Center.
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I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.
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It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
