Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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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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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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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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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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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 guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.
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Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.
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In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!
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My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
