Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by the Islamic religious heritage.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
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There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
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The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
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Now a little boy or girl, and many an older person, thinks that a spotted horse is the real thing, but practical cattle men know that this freak of color in range-bred horses is the result of in-and-in breeding, with consequent physical and mental deterioration.
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
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For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by the Islamic religious heritage.
